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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. In 1920, he was chosen as executive secretary of ...
God's Trombones. 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 ...
236. 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. He lives through a variety of experiences, including witnessing a lynching ...
Area. 70 acres (28 ha) Architect. Mahood, Alex B., et al.; Multiple. NRHP reference No. 94000722 [1] Added to NRHP. August 31, 1994. The Beckley Courthouse Square Historic District is a 70-acre (28 ha) historic district in Beckley, West Virginia, United States that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.
Alfred Beckley. Alfred Beckley (May 26, 1802 – May 26, 1888) was the founder of Beckley, West Virginia, and a brigadier general in the Virginia militia during the American Civil War. He named the city of Beckley in honor of his father, John James Beckley, [a][b] who was the first librarian of the United States Congress.
Beckley is a city in and the county seat of Raleigh County, West Virginia, United States. The population was 17,286 at the 2020 census, making it the ninth-most populous city in the state. It is the principal city of the Beckley metropolitan area of Southern West Virginia, home to 115,079 residents in 2020. Beckley was founded on April 4, 1838 ...
Wildwood (Beckley, West Virginia) / 37.77083°N 81.18667°W / 37.77083; -81.18667. Wildwood, also known as the General Alfred Beckley Home, is a historic home located at Beckley, Raleigh County, West Virginia. The house is open as the Wildwood House Museum and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1970.
December 2, 1993. Byrnside-Beirne-Johnson House, also known as "Willowbrook," is a historic home located near Union, Monroe County, West Virginia. The house began as a pioneer log fort built by six families in 1770. After 1855, it was enlarged to a large 21⁄2 -story, five-bay, T-shaped dwelling with a two-story rear wing.