James Weldon Johnson - Wikipedia
WEBJames 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.
James Weldon Johnson Biography - Facts, Childhood, Family Life ...
WEBJames Weldon Johnson married Grace Nail on February 3, 1910. Grace was the daughter of John Bennett Nail, the first life member of the NAACP. She was also a civil rights activist and patron of arts.
James Weldon Johnson - Poems, Facts & Harlem Renaissance - Biography
WEBApr 2, 2014 · Early Life and Career. James Weldon Johnson was born in Jacksonville, Florida, on June 17, 1871, the son of a freeborn Virginian father and a Bahamian mother, and was raised without a sense of...
James Weldon Johnson | Civil Rights Activist, Poet, Educator
WEBJames Weldon Johnson was a poet, diplomat, and anthologist of black culture. Trained in music and other subjects by his mother, a schoolteacher, Johnson graduated from Atlanta University with A.B. (1894) and M.A. (1904) degrees and later studied at …
James Weldon Johnson and John Rosamond Johnson
WEBJames Weldon Johnson and John Rosamond Johnson. The Johnson Brothers were born in Jacksonville, Florida. Their Bahamian mother, Helen Louise Dillet, was a musician and teacher at a segregated public school. Their father, James Johnson, raised in Virginia, was a head waiter at Florida’s first winter resort.
About James Weldon Johnson - Emory University
WEBBorn in Jacksonville, Florida, in 1871, James Weldon Johnson’s life was defined by a number of firsts. Educated at Atlanta University, he was the first African American to pass the bar in Florida during his tenure as principal of …
James Weldon Johnson | Encyclopedia.com
WEBOn June 17, 1871, James Weldon Johnson was born in Jacksonville, Fla. His father, a restaurant headwaiter, was entirely self-taught; his mother was a musician and school teacher. After taking his bachelor of arts degree at Atlanta University in 1894, Johnson taught in the public school for blacks in Jacksonville.
Living Legacy — James Weldon Johnson
WEBSep 10, 2020 · WACCABUC, N.Y. - Waccabuc resident Rufus Jones and his wife, Jill Rosenberg Jones, are on a mission to keep the legacy of James Weldon Johnson (1871-1938) alive.
James Weldon Johnson and Grace Nail Johnson papers - Yale …
WEBThe James Weldon Johnson and Grace Nail Johnson Papers provide evidence of the personal and professional lives of James Weldon Johnson, Grace Nail Johnson, and to a lesser degree, the Johnson and Nail families, spanning the years 1850 to 2005, with the bulk of material dating between 1900 and 1976.
About James Weldon Johnson | Academy of American Poets
WEBJohnson was the eldest son of James Johnson, Sr., a head waiter at a hotel, and Helen Louise (née Dillet), a schoolteacher at the Stanton Preparatory School in Jacksonville, where Johnson would later become a principal at age twenty-three. His parents were immigrants from the Bahamas.
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