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Person · 1871–1938

James Weldon Johnson

Poet, NAACP leader, and author of "Lift Every Voice and Sing," the Black national anthem.

A leader of the [[harlem-renaissance]] and the NAACP.

A Renaissance man of the Renaissance, James Weldon Johnson wrote "God's Trombones," anthologized Black poetry, and led the NAACP's early anti-lynching fight.

The Harlem RenaissanceLiterature

On the timeline

  1. March 1925
    The Harlem Renaissance flowers

    Alain Locke's "The New Negro" anthology announces a generation of Black artistic genius.

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