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James Weldon Johnson (June 17, 1871 – June 26, 1938) was an American writer and civil rights activist. He was married to civil rights activist Grace Nail Johnson . Johnson was a leader of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), where he started working in 1917.
The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man (1912/1927) by James Weldon Johnson is the fictional account of a young biracial man, referred to only as the "Ex-Colored Man", living in post-Reconstruction era America in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
God's Trombones: Seven Negro Sermons in Verse is a 1927 book of poems by James Weldon Johnson patterned after traditional African-American religious oratory. African-American scholars Henry Louis Gates and Cornel West have identified the collection as one of Johnson's two most notable works, the other being Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man. [1]
The song was originally written as a poem in 1899 by James Weldon Johnson, ... The poem became a song when Johnson's brother John Rosamond Johnson composed an instrumental arrangement for it. The ...
Grace Nail Johnson (February 27, 1885 – November 1, 1976) was an African-American civil rights activist and patron of the arts associated with the Harlem Renaissance, and wife of the writer and politician James Weldon Johnson. Johnson was the daughter of John Bennett Nail, a wealthy businessman and civil rights activist.
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James Weldon Johnson (1871–1938), African-American figure in the Harlem Renaissance James Wood Johnson (1856–1932), co-founder of the company Johnson and Johnson Lefty Johnson (pitcher) (James W. Johnson), American baseball player of the 1930s
Jason Kempin/Getty Images Kathie Lee Gifford is offering candid insight into the affair that rocked her marriage to late husband Frank Gifford. The former Today host, 70, reflected on how she ...