21. The Haiti-Santo Domingo Independence Society History of the organization formed in 1921 to end the U.S. military occupations of Haiti and Santo Domingo. Includes essays by james weldon johnson and others involved in the movement. http://www.boondocksnet.com/ail/haiti_sd_soc.html

History Literature Essays Platforms ... Discussion Search Women's History Month Resources The Haiti-Santo Domingo Independence Society By Jim Zwick The Haiti-Santo Domingo Independence Society (Oct. 1921) Officers: Moorfield Storey , Chairman James Weldon Johnson , Vice-Chairman Helena Hill Weed , Secretary Robert Herrick, Treasurer Lewis S. Gannett , Asst. Treasurer Advisory Council: Felix Adler Ernest Angell Mrs. John Winters Brannan Henry Sloane Coffin, D.D. Albert DeSilver Ernest H. Gruening Francis Hackett Donald R. Hooker, M.D. Mrs. Edith Houghton Hooker Mrs. Charles E. Knoblauch Paul Kennaday Ben B. Lindsey Robert Morss Lovett Rt. Rev. Francis J. McConnell James G. MacDonald John E. Milholland Jessie Morris Mary White Ovington John A. Ryan, D.D. Herbert J. Seligmann Theodore Sutro Oswald Garrison Villard Sue S. White L. Hollingsworth Wood T he Haiti-Santo Domingo Independence Society grew out of concerns within both the Anti-Imperialist League and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) about the U.S. Marine occupations of those countries. Its officers and advisory committee included people from both organizations, and it was centered around The Nation

22. PAL: James Weldon Johnson (1871-1938) Bibliography of johnson's works and literary criticism of them.Category Arts Literature Authors J johnson, james weldon...... Chapter 9 Harlem Renaissance james weldon johnson (1871-1938). Skinner,Curtis. johnson, james weldon 1871-1938. Contemporary Authors. Ed. http://www.csustan.edu/english/reuben/pal/chap9/jwjohnson.html

PAL: Perspectives in American Literature - A Research and Reference Guide Paul P. Reuben Chapter 9: Harlem Renaissance - James Weldon Johnson (1871-1938) "The Creation" (from God's Trombones Primary Works Selected Bibliography: Books ... Home Page Source: Modern American Poetry "I will not allow one prejudiced person or one million or one hundred million to blight my life. I will not let prejudice or any of its attendant humiliations and injustices bear me down to spiritual defeat. My inner life is mine, and I shall defend and maintain its integrity against all the powers of hell (quoted in Skinner, 237, listed below)." Top "The Creation" (from God's Trombones And God stepped out on space, And he looked around and said: I'm lonely - I'll make me a world. And far as the eye of God could see 5 Darkness covered everything, Blacker than a hundred midnights Down in a cypress swamp. Then God smiled, And the light broke, 10 And the darkness rolled up on one side, And the light stood shining on the other

23. The Book Of American Negro Poetry - James Weldon Johnson james weldon johnson's 1922 anthology of poems from the start of the Harlem Renaissance. http://www.boondocksnet.com/editions/anp/index.html

BoondocksNet Editions Edited by Jim Zwick Author Index Title Index Discussion ... Book Store Search Women's History Month Resources Search this Book The Book of American Negro Poetry Chosen and Edited with an Essay on The Negro's Creative Genius By James Weldon Johnson Author of "Fifty Years and Other Poems" New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1922 BoondocksNet Edition, 2001 Contents Preface: The Negro's Creative Genius Paul Laurence Dunbar A Negro Love Song Little Brown Baby Ships That Pass in the Night Lover's Lane ... A Death Song James Edwin Campbell Negro Serenade De Cunjah Man Uncle Eph's Banjo Song Ol' Doc' Hyar ... Compensation James D. Corrothers At the Closed Gate of Justice Paul Laurence Dunbar The Negro Singer The Road to the Bow ... Dream and the Song Daniel Webster Davis 'Weh Down Souf Hog Meat William H. A. Moore Dusk Song It Was Not Fate W. E. Burghardt Du Bois A Litany of Atlanta George Marion McClellan Dogwood Blossoms A Butterfly in Church The Hills of Sewanee The Feet of Judas William Stanley Braithwaite Sandy Star and Willie Gee I. Sculptured Worship II. Laughing It Out

24. From Revolution To Reconstruction: Outlines: Outline Of American Literature: The Like Du Bois, the poet james weldon johnson found inspiration in AfricanAmerican spirituals. http://odur.let.rug.nl/usanew/LIT/johnson.htm

FRtR Outlines American Literature The Rise of Realism: 1860-1914: James Weldon Johnson (1871-1938) An Outline of American Literature by Kathryn VanSpanckeren The Rise of Realism: 1860-1914: James Weldon Johnson (1871-1938) Index Like Du Bois, the poet James Weldon Johnson found inspiration in African-American spirituals. His poem "O Black and Unknown Bards" (1917) asks: Heart of what slave poured out such melody As "Steal Away to Jesus?" On its strains His spirit must have nightly floated free, Though still about his hands he felt his chains. Of mixed white and black ancestry, Johnson explored the complex issue of race in his fictional Autobiography of an Ex- Colored Man (1912), about a mixed-race man who "passes" (is accepted) for white. The book effectively conveys the black American's concern with issues of identity in America. Index

25. The Book Of American Negro Poetry - James Weldon Johnson james weldon johnson's 1922 anthology of poems from the start of the Harlem Renaissance. Includes related resources. http://www.boondocksnet.com/anp/index.html

BoondocksNet Editions Edited by Jim Zwick Author Index Title Index Discussion ... Book Store Search Women's History Month Resources Search this Book The Book of American Negro Poetry Chosen and Edited with an Essay on The Negro's Creative Genius By James Weldon Johnson Author of "Fifty Years and Other Poems" New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1922 BoondocksNet Edition, 2001 Contents Preface: The Negro's Creative Genius Paul Laurence Dunbar A Negro Love Song Little Brown Baby Ships That Pass in the Night Lover's Lane ... A Death Song James Edwin Campbell Negro Serenade De Cunjah Man Uncle Eph's Banjo Song Ol' Doc' Hyar ... Compensation James D. Corrothers At the Closed Gate of Justice Paul Laurence Dunbar The Negro Singer The Road to the Bow ... Dream and the Song Daniel Webster Davis 'Weh Down Souf Hog Meat William H. A. Moore Dusk Song It Was Not Fate W. E. Burghardt Du Bois A Litany of Atlanta George Marion McClellan Dogwood Blossoms A Butterfly in Church The Hills of Sewanee The Feet of Judas William Stanley Braithwaite Sandy Star and Willie Gee I. Sculptured Worship II. Laughing It Out

26. James Weldon Johnson, 1871-1938 -- Biography whom he soon became friends. Bob Cole, james weldon johnson, andJohn Rosamond johnson. Educator and Songwriter After graduating http://www.sc.edu/library/spcoll/amlit/johnson/johnson1.html

Biography Johnson's parents, James and Helen Louise Early Years Johnson as a member of the Atlanta University Quartette College While attending Atlanta University, from which he earned his A.B. in 1894, Johnson taught for two summers in rural Hampton, Georgia. There he experienced life among poor African Americans, from which he had been largely sheltered during his middle-class upbringing in Jacksonville. During the summer before his senior year he attended the Columbian Exposition in Chicago, where, on "Colored People's Day," he listened to a speech by Frederick Douglass and heard poems read by Paul Laurence Dunbar, with whom he soon became friends. Bob Cole, James Weldon Johnson, and John Rosamond Johnson Educator and Songwriter After graduating from Atlanta University, Johnson became the principal of the Jacksonville school where his mother had taught, improving education there by adding ninth and tenth grades. In 1895 he founded a newspaper, the Daily American , designed to educate Jacksonville's adult black community, but problems with finances forced it to shut down after only eight months. While still serving as a public school principal, Johnson studied law and became the first African American to pass the bar exam in Florida. When Johnson's younger brother, John Rosamond, graduated from the New England Conservatory of Music in 1897, the two began collaborating on a musical theater. Though there attempts to get their comic opera "Tolosa" produced in New York in 1899 were unsuccessful, Johnson's experiences there excited his creative energies. He soon began writing lyrics, for which his brother composed music, including "Lift Every Voice and Sing," which subsequently came to be known as the "Negro National Anthem." The Johnson brothers soon teamed up with Bob Cole to write songs. In 1902, Johnson resigned his post as principal in Jacksonville, and the two brothers moved to New York, where their partnership with Cole proved very successful.

27. Poetry And Prose Of The Harlem Renaissance Works by Gwendolyn B. Bennett, Countee Cullen, Alice DunbarNelson, Jessie Redmon Fauset, Angelina W. Grimke, Zora Neale Hurston, james weldon johnson, Nella Larsen, Claude McKay, and Anne Spencer. http://www.nku.edu/~diesmanj/poetryindex.html

Poetry and Prose of the Harlem Renaissance (Full Text) Get a sneek peek of my resource guide , which currently contains primary and secondary works of 10 women of the Harlem Renaissance. The guide's format will be changing this summer and more authors will be included. To view the authors currently available, use the pull-down menu to choose a name, then click the Go button. Gwendolyn B. Bennett Arna Bontemps Countee Cullen Marion Vera Cuthbert Alice Dunbar-Nelson Jessie Redmon Fauset Angelina W. Grimke Langston Hughes Zora Neale Hurston James Weldon Johnson Nella Larsen Claude McKay Esther Popel Anne Spencer Jean Toomer Ida B. Wells-Barnett Gwendolyn B. Bennett Arna Bontemps Countee Cullen Marion Vera Cuthbert ... Langston Hughes As I knew would happen eventually, the literary representatives of the Estate of Langston Hughes have informed me that I must take down the majority of Hughes poetry currently on my website. What I intend to do is to provide five poems (the number I have been given permission to display), which will change periodically. Zora Neale Hurston James Weldon Johnson Nella Larsen Claude McKay ... Ida B. Wells-Barnett

28. Self-Determining Haiti - The American Occupation - James Weldon Johnson Fourpart essay by james weldon johnson about conditions in Haiti during the U.S. Occupation from 1915-1934, first published in The Nation in 1920. http://www.boondocksnet.com/ailtexts/johnson200828.html

History Literature Essays Platforms ... Discussion Search Women's History Month Resources Self-Determining Haiti I. The American Occupation By James Weldon Johnson The Nation 111 (Aug. 28, 1920). T Before any further discussion of the Fuller project between the two governments, political incidents in Haiti led rapidly to the events of July 27 and 28. On July 27 President Guillaume fled to the French Legation, and on the same day took place a massacre of the political prisoners in the prison at Port-au-Prince. On the morning of July 28 President Guillaume was forcibly taken from French Legation and killed. On the afternoon of July 28 an American man-of-war dropped anchor in the harbor of Port-au-Prince and landed American forces. It should be borne in mind that through all of this the life of not a single American citizen had been taken or jeopardized. The balking of the assembly resulted in its being dissolved by actual military force and the locking of doors of the Chamber. There has been no Haitian legislative body since. The desired constitution was submitted to a plebiscite by a decree of the President, although such a method of constitutional revision was clearly unconstitutional. Under the circumstances of the Occupation the plebiscite was, of course, almost unanimous for the desired change, and the new constitution was promulgated on June 18, 1918. Thus Haiti was given a new constitution by a flagrantly unconstitutional method. The new document contains several fundamental changes and includes a "Special Article" which declares:

29. The Book Of American Negro Poetry - James Weldon Johnson james weldon johnson's landmark 1922 anthology of African American poetry with his indepth essay on The Negro's Creative Genius. http://www.boondocksnet.com/anp/

BoondocksNet Editions Edited by Jim Zwick Author Index Title Index Discussion ... Book Store Search Women's History Month Resources Search this Book The Book of American Negro Poetry Chosen and Edited with an Essay on The Negro's Creative Genius By James Weldon Johnson Author of "Fifty Years and Other Poems" New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1922 BoondocksNet Edition, 2001 Contents Preface: The Negro's Creative Genius Paul Laurence Dunbar A Negro Love Song Little Brown Baby Ships That Pass in the Night Lover's Lane ... A Death Song James Edwin Campbell Negro Serenade De Cunjah Man Uncle Eph's Banjo Song Ol' Doc' Hyar ... Compensation James D. Corrothers At the Closed Gate of Justice Paul Laurence Dunbar The Negro Singer The Road to the Bow ... Dream and the Song Daniel Webster Davis 'Weh Down Souf Hog Meat William H. A. Moore Dusk Song It Was Not Fate W. E. Burghardt Du Bois A Litany of Atlanta George Marion McClellan Dogwood Blossoms A Butterfly in Church The Hills of Sewanee The Feet of Judas William Stanley Braithwaite Sandy Star and Willie Gee I. Sculptured Worship II. Laughing It Out

30. Bigchalk: HomeworkCentral: Johnson, James Weldon (Civil Rights Leaders) Looking for the best facts and sites on johnson, james weldon? World Book OnlineArticle on johnson, james weldon; Biographical Overview; Biography Resources; http://www.bigchalk.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/WOPortal.woa/Homework/High_School/Bio

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31. Johnson, James Weldon johnson, james weldon. johnson, james weldon, 1871–1938, American author, b.Jacksonville, Fla., educated at Atlanta Univ. (BA, 1894) and at Columbia. http://www.factmonster.com/cgi-bin/id/CE027153.html

Encyclopedia Johnson, James Weldon Johnson, James Weldon, Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man (1912), published anonymously, caused a great stir and was republished under his name in 1927. Among his other works are the words to Lift Every Voice and Sing (1900, repr. 1993), which has been called the African-American national anthem, God's Trombones (1927), African-American sermons in verse, and Black Manhattan (1930). He wrote songs with his brother, John Rosamond Johnson See his autobiography, Along This Way (1933, repr. 1973); study by E. Levy (1973). Johnson, Jack Johnson, Sir John AD AD AD AD AD Print this page Cite this page Awards and Press Link to Fact Monster Add Fact Monster search ... Privacy

32. James Weldon Johnson (1871-1938) In the index, the entry johnson, james weldon is a reference guide inchronological order that gives the chance to examine items of choice. http://www.hmco.com/college/english/heath/syllabuild/iguide/johnson.html

James Weldon Johnson (1871-1938) Contributing Editor: Arthenia J. Bates Millican Classroom Issues and Strategies Next to James Weldon Johnson's name and date of birth in a biosketch is the familiar catalog of his accomplishments as educator, journalist, lawyer, composer, librettist, poet, novelist, editor, social historian, literary critic, diplomat, fighter for the rights of his people and the rights of all. Yet, he is remembered today, almost exclusively, as the author of "Lift Every Voice and Sing"; and to some degree as the author of the "Creation," the first sermon in God's Trombones One mythic error is still in vogue for the less ardent studentand that is the indictment leveled against the author who "talks black" but who was never really given to the black ethos. This accusation comes as an error of identification. Some students assume that Johnson himself is the protagonist of the novel, The Autobiography of an Ex-colored Man . Actually, the author's friend, "D_," Douglas Wetmore, is model for the protagonist. Thus, one encounters the problem of coping with an author with name popularity, but who is not known despite his myriad contributions to American and African-American literary culture.

33. Johnson, James Weldon johnson, james weldon. johnson. Brown Brothers. (b. June 17, 1871,Jacksonville, Fla., USd. June 26, 1938, Wiscasset, Maine), poet http://search.eb.com/blackhistory/micro/305/35.html

34. 31056. Johnson, James Weldon. The Columbia World Of Quotations. 1996 ATTRIBUTION james weldon johnson (1871–1938), US author, poet. The ProdigalSon, God’s Trombones (1927). The Columbia World of Quotations. http://www.bartleby.com/66/56/31056.html

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35. 31055. Johnson, James Weldon. The Columbia World Of Quotations. 1996 QUOTATION The glory of the day was in her face, The beauty of the night wasin her eyes. ATTRIBUTION james weldon johnson (1871–1938), US author. http://www.bartleby.com/66/55/31055.html

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36. Jass.com: Bob Cole, J. Rosamond Johnson, And James Weldon Johnson Bob Cole, J. Rosamond johnson, and james weldon johnson Copyrighted 1992,2000 by Thomas L Morgan. james weldon johnson died on June 26, 1938. http://www.jass.com/c&j.html

Bob Cole, J. Rosamond Johnson, and James Weldon Johnson 1992, 2000 by Thomas L Morgan B ob Cole was born in Athens, Georgia, on July 1, 1868. His earliest published songs were issued in 1893, and one of his earliest stage jobs was with Sam T. Jack's Creole Show , the first African-American show to break from the strict minstrel tradition of all male performers. Cole also performed as an actor and directed the All Star Stock Company at Worth's Museum in New York, the first such company organized by African-Americans. When he was 27 years old and performing with Black Patti's Troubadours, Cole was engaged by the Troubadours' producers to write an entire show with Billy Johnson, his first collaborator. After a dispute over ownership of his music, Cole and Johnson left to organize Cole's own company. Elaborating on his early short sketches, he created a full-length musical which was performed off-Broadway in New York's Third Avenue Theater during the 1898-99 season. A Trip To Coontown was the first musical entirely written, performed, produced, and owned by African-Americans. Unlike other black entertainments of the time, Cole's production had a book and lyrics that could sustain a dramatic subplot. After the show closed, Cole and Billy Johnson broke off their working relationship, and Cole met the two men with whom he was to create his most successful songs.

37. The Book Of American Negro Poetry - James Weldon Johnson james weldon johnson's 1922 anthology of poems from the start of the Harlem Renaissance.Category Society Ethnicity African AfricanAmerican Literature...... Citation johnson, james weldon, ed. The Book of American Negro Poetry (NewYork Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1922; BoondocksNet Edition, 2001). http://www.boondocksnet.com/editions/anp/

BoondocksNet Editions Edited by Jim Zwick Author Index Title Index Discussion ... Book Store Search Women's History Month Resources Search this Book The Book of American Negro Poetry Chosen and Edited with an Essay on The Negro's Creative Genius By James Weldon Johnson Author of "Fifty Years and Other Poems" New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1922 BoondocksNet Edition, 2001 Contents Preface: The Negro's Creative Genius Paul Laurence Dunbar A Negro Love Song Little Brown Baby Ships That Pass in the Night Lover's Lane ... A Death Song James Edwin Campbell Negro Serenade De Cunjah Man Uncle Eph's Banjo Song Ol' Doc' Hyar ... Compensation James D. Corrothers At the Closed Gate of Justice Paul Laurence Dunbar The Negro Singer The Road to the Bow ... Dream and the Song Daniel Webster Davis 'Weh Down Souf Hog Meat William H. A. Moore Dusk Song It Was Not Fate W. E. Burghardt Du Bois A Litany of Atlanta George Marion McClellan Dogwood Blossoms A Butterfly in Church The Hills of Sewanee The Feet of Judas William Stanley Braithwaite Sandy Star and Willie Gee I. Sculptured Worship II. Laughing It Out

38. Self-Determining Haiti - The American Occupation - James Weldon Johnson I. The American Occupation. By james weldon johnson. Citation johnson, james weldon. SelfDetermining Haiti I. The American Occupation. The Nation 111 (Aug. http://www.boondocksnet.com/ai/ailtexts/johnson200828.html

History Literature Essays Platforms ... Discussion Search Women's History Month Resources Self-Determining Haiti I. The American Occupation By James Weldon Johnson The Nation 111 (Aug. 28, 1920). T Before any further discussion of the Fuller project between the two governments, political incidents in Haiti led rapidly to the events of July 27 and 28. On July 27 President Guillaume fled to the French Legation, and on the same day took place a massacre of the political prisoners in the prison at Port-au-Prince. On the morning of July 28 President Guillaume was forcibly taken from French Legation and killed. On the afternoon of July 28 an American man-of-war dropped anchor in the harbor of Port-au-Prince and landed American forces. It should be borne in mind that through all of this the life of not a single American citizen had been taken or jeopardized. The balking of the assembly resulted in its being dissolved by actual military force and the locking of doors of the Chamber. There has been no Haitian legislative body since. The desired constitution was submitted to a plebiscite by a decree of the President, although such a method of constitutional revision was clearly unconstitutional. Under the circumstances of the Occupation the plebiscite was, of course, almost unanimous for the desired change, and the new constitution was promulgated on June 18, 1918. Thus Haiti was given a new constitution by a flagrantly unconstitutional method. The new document contains several fundamental changes and includes a "Special Article" which declares:

39. Gale - Free Resources - Poet's Corner - Biographies - Ames Weldon Johnson james weldon johnson. Read his poem The Creation . (18711938) NationalityAmerican Career Poet, novelist, journalist, song writer http://www.galegroup.com/free_resources/poets/bio/johnson_j.htm

Quick Title Search Press Room About Us Contact Us Site Map ... Browse Our Catalog document.write(url); Free Resources Reference Reviews Marketing for Libraries Black History Month ... Women's History Month James Weldon Johnson Read his poem "The Creation" Nationality: American Career: Poet, novelist, journalist, song writer, attorney, educator, and diplomat In 1894 Johnson was appointed a teacher and principal of the Stanton School and expanded the curriculum to include high school-level classes. He also became an active local spokesman on black social and political issues and in 1895 founded the Daily American W. E. B. Du Bois and Booker T. Washington . Around this time Johnson also read law with the help of a local white lawyer, and in 1898 he became the first black lawyer admitted to the Florida Bar since Reconstruction. Johnson practiced law in Jacksonville for several years in partnership with a former Atlanta University classmate while continuing to serve as the principal of the Stanton School. He also continued to write poetry and discovered a talent for songwriting, which he pursued in collaboration with his brother. Booker T. Washington

40. Johnson, James Weldon Strangers to Us All, Lawyers and Poetry. james weldon johnson (18711938). Bob Cole,J. Rosamond johnson, and james weldon johnson. Proud to be a Lawyer. Poems. http://www.wvu.edu/~lawfac/jelkins/lp-2001/johnson_jw.html

Strangers to Us All Lawyers and Poetry James Weldon Johnson Used with Permission of Florida State Archives James Weldon Johnson was an African-American poet, novelist, public school teacher, principal, diplomat, critic, historian, journalist, and lyricist. He founded the first African American newspaper, the Daily American and was the first national executive secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. He served as U. S. Consul to Venezuela and Nicaragua. Johnson is today associated with the Harlem Renaissance. Johnson was the first African-American admitted to the Florida bar. During two summers of his college years, Johnson taught in rural Georgia schools. After graduating from the college division of Atlanta University in 1894, Johnson taught for a year at the Stanton School in Jacksonville, his old grammar school, and the school where his mother had taught for many years. Then, at the age of twenty-three, he became its principal. Before leaving Stanton, Johnson had decided to try his hand as an editor and publisher. With savings and borrowed money he founded the

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