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James Weldon Johnson was an American author, educator, lawyer, diplomat, songwriter, and civil rights activist. Johnson is best remembered for his leadership of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People , where he started working in 1917. In 1920 he was the first African American to be 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, novels, and anthologies collecting both poems and spirituals of black culture.

He was appointed under President Theodore Roosevelt as US 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.

✵ 17. červen 1871 – 26. červen 1938
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“Every race and every nation should be judged by the best it has been able to produce, not by the worst.”

James Weldon Johnson kniha The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man

The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man, ch. 10.

“The glory of the day was in her face,
The beauty of the night was in her eyes.”

The Glory of the Day Was in Her Face, st. 1 (1917).

“The colored people of this country know and understand the white people better than the white people know and understand them.”

James Weldon Johnson kniha The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man

The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man, ch. 2 (1912).

“And God stepped out on space,
And He looked around and said,
"I'm lonely—
I'll make me a world."”

The Creation, st. 1.
God's Trombones: Seven Negro Sermons in Verse (1927)

“With his head in his hands,
God thought and thought,
Till he thought: I'll make me a man!”

The Creation, st. 10.
God's Trombones: Seven Negro Sermons in Verse (1927)

“Find Sister Caroline…
And she's tired—
She's weary—
Go down, Death, and bring her to me.”

Go Down, Death, st. 5.
God's Trombones: Seven Negro Sermons in Verse (1927)

“Young man—Young man—Your arm’s too short to box with God.”

The Prodigal Son.
God's Trombones: Seven Negro Sermons in Verse (1927)

“And God smiled again,
And the rainbow appeared,
And curled itself around his shoulder.”

The Creation, st. 7.
God's Trombones: Seven Negro Sermons in Verse (1927)

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