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James Weldon Johnson, who was born June 17, 1871, was an American author, politician, diplomat, critic, journalist, poet, anthologist, educator, lawyer, songwriter, and early civil rights activist. His writing includes collections of poetry, spirituals and folklore from the black community, but he is best known for his book, originally published anonymously to protect his diplomatic career, “The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man”. Johnson was appointed by Theodore Roosevelt as US consul to Venezuela and Nicaragua in 1906 having earlier campaigned for Roosevelt. Johnson would be involved with the Harlem Renaissance, the early civil rights movement and he would later serve as the first Secretary of the NAACP for a decade, and become the first African-American professor at New York University. 📚 #gsbauthorquotes #gsbquotesjamesweldonjohnson . . . . . . . . . . #gasstationburrito #onthisday #literaryhistory #bookstagram #books #bookworm #author #authorquotes #authormemes #writer #writerquotes #jamesweldonjohnson #blackvoices #blackwriters #blackhistory #harlemrenaissance #naacp #autobiographyofanexcoloredman #lynching #mob #mobrule #racism https://www.instagram.com/p/CBicrgYhax5/?igshid=fevzpya5igcz

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James Weldon Johnson, who was born June 17, 1871, was an American author, politician, diplomat, critic, journalist, poet, anthologist, educator, lawyer, songwriter, and early civil rights activist. His writing includes collections of poetry, spirituals and folklore from the black community, but he is best known for his book, originally published anonymously to protect his diplomatic career, “The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man”. Johnson was appointed by Theodore Roosevelt as US consul to Venezuela and Nicaragua in 1906 having earlier campaigned for Roosevelt. Johnson would be involved with the Harlem Renaissance, the early civil rights movement and he would later serve as the first Secretary of the NAACP for a decade, and become the first African-American professor at New York University. 📚 #gsbauthorquotes #gsbquotesjamesweldonjohnson . . . . . . . . . . #gasstationburrito #onthisday #literaryhistory #bookstagram #books #bookworm #author #authorquotes #authormemes #writer #writerquotes #jamesweldonjohnson #blackvoices #blackwriters #blackhistory #memory #tragedy #history #experience https://www.instagram.com/p/CB5_T8OhhFJ/?igshid=1lj1q4iir5mr2

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As well as serving as the first black executive secretary of the NAACP for a decade, James Weldon Johnson was one of the first African-American professors at New York University. Later in life he was a professor of creative literature and writing at Fisk University. 📚 📚 #gsbauthorquotes #gsbquotesjamesweldonjohnson https://www.instagram.com/p/By1Hv6MBhW0/?igshid=kjeeqh27s5ls

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James Weldon Johnson, who was born June 17, 1871, was an American author, politician, diplomat, critic, journalist, poet, anthologist, educator, lawyer, songwriter, and early civil rights activist. Johnson is best known for looking like he doesn’t have time for your shit, as well as for his writing, which includes novels, poems, and collections of folklore. 📚 “...but if the Negro is so distinctly inferior, it is a strange thing to me that it takes such tremendous effort on the part of the white man to make him realize it, and to keep him in the same place into which inferior men naturally fall.” ― James Weldon Johnson 📚 #gsbauthorquotes #gsbquotesjamesweldonjohnson https://www.instagram.com/p/By0YYjGB-w3/?igshid=xyily3omux1q