James Weldon Johnson

James Weldon Johnson

Known for: Writing
Biography: 1871-06-17
Deathday: 1938-06-26 (67 years old)

Biography

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 the organization, effectively the operating officer. He served in that position from 1920 to 1930. Johnson established his reputation as a writer, and was known during the Harlem Renaissance for his poems, novel, and anthologies collecting both poems and spirituals of black culture. He wrote the lyrics for "Lift Every Voice and Sing", which later became known as the Negro National Anthem, the music being written by his younger brother, composer J. Rosamond Johnson.

Johnson was appointed under President Theodore Roosevelt as U.S. consul in Venezuela and Nicaragua for most of the period from 1906 to 1913. In 1934, he was the first African American professor to be hired at New York University. Later in life, he was a professor of creative literature and writing at Fisk University, a historically black university. The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man (1912/1927, novel)

Black Manhattan (1930, study)

Negro Americans, What Now? (1934, essay)

Johnson, James Weldon (1968) . Along This Way: The Autobiography of James Weldon Johnson (Viking Compass ed.). New York: Viking Press.

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Known For
Writing

Gender
Male

Birthday
1871-06-17

Deathday
1938-06-26 (67 years old)

Relationships
Grace Nail Johnson (1910-02-03 - 1938-06-26)

Siblings
J. Rosamond Johnson

Citizenships
United States of America

Awards
William E. Harmon Foundation award for distinguished achievement among Negroes, Florida Artists Hall of Fame, Spingarn Medal

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