#james weldon johnson

[readyforevolution]

#james weldon johnson #blacktumblr #black history #black liberation #african history

[thepopculturearchivist]

LITERARY DIGEST, March 26, 1927

#1920s #1927 #u.s. history #supreme court #segregation #racism #louisiana #james weldon johnson

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"The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man" by James Weldon Johnson is the fictional telling of the story of a young biracial man, referred to only as the "Ex-Colored Man", living in post Reconstruction era America in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. The Ex-Colored Man was forced to choose between embracing his black heritage and culture by expressing himself through the African-American musical genre ragtime, or by "passing" and living obscurely as a mediocre middle-class white man. Though the title suggests otherwise, the book is not an autobiography but a novel. However, the book is based on the lives of people Johnson knew and from events in his own life. Johnson's text is an example of a "roman à clef."

#book #james weldon johnson #author #african american

[honeysound]

Music and the will to live.

The Gift to Sing - James Weldon Johnson // Jazz 3 - Kunstler Tapeten // Free - Florence + the Machine // testify - Eve L. Ewing // Sir Duke - Stevie Wonder & Wassily Kandinsky // Hammond B3 Organ Cistern - Gabrielle Calvocoressi

#web weaving #honeysound #james weldon johnson #eve l. ewing #stevie wonder #wassily kandinsky #gabrielle calvocoressi #poetry #lyrics #collection #compilation #music #florence + the machine

[scattered-winter]

on music

james weldon johnson—the gift to sing // marc chagall—the triumph of music // tom waits // henry david thoreau // georgia o'keeffe—music, pink and blue no. 2 // maya angelou // arthur o'shaughnessy—ode

#is this something #idk i'm just very emotional about music at any given time of day <333 #web weaving #music #words #james weldon johnson #marc chagall #tom waits #henry david thoreau #georgia o'keeffe #maya angelou #arthur o'shaughnessy #winter's weaving #insp

[protoslacker]

I reassembled the picture in my mind: a lone negro in the hands of his accusers, who for the time are no longer human; he is chained to a stake, wood is piled under and around him, and five thousand men and women, women with babies in their arms and women with babies in their wombs, look on with pitiless anticipation, with sadistic satisfaction while he is baptized with gasoline and set afire. The mob disperses, many of them complaining ‘They burned him too fast.’ I tried to balance the sufferings of the miserable victim against the moral degradation of Memphis, and the truth flashed over me that in large measure the race question involves the saving of black America’s body and white America’s soul.

James Weldon Johnson quoted in an essay by  Liann Tsoukas in THE WARHOL: The Without Sanctuary Project. "Lynch law" in the American landscape

Recalling a lynching that he investigated in Memphis in 1917,

#lynching #naacp #james weldon johnson #white supremacy

[phantomuseum]

"Then God walked around, And God looked around On all that he had made. He looked at his sun, And he looked at his moon, And he looked at his little stars; He looked on his world With all its living things, And God said: I'm lonely still." -James Weldon Johnson

#poetry #poem #literary #literature #james weldon johnson

[theshatterednotes]

American writer James Weldon Johnson

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[tjeromebaker]

The Black National Anthem: Lift Every Voice And Sing by James Weldon Johnson #BlackHistoryMonth

Here is the poem that inspired the Anthem: James Weldon Johnson, 1871 –1938 Source: Poets.org Read poems by James Weldon Johnson Photo credit: Carl Van Vechten James Weldon Johnson was born on June 17, 1871, in Jacksonville, Florida. Johnson was the eldest son of James Johnson, Sr., a head waiter at a hotel, and Helen Louise (née Dillet), a schoolteacher at the Stanton Preparatory School in…

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#Black History Month #Black National Anthem #James Weldon Johnson #Lift Every Voice And Sing #The Black National Anthem

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Poem by James Weldon Johnson

#james weldon johnson #words #poem #poetry #african american poetry #american poetry

[readyforevolution]

#james weldon johnson #blacktumblr #black history #black liberation #african history

[spoke9]

James Weldon Johnson  | Beauty That is Never Old

#lovepoetry #blackhistorymonth

When buffeted and beaten by life’s storms, When by the bitter cares of life oppressed, I want no surer haven than your arms, I want no sweeter heaven than your breast. When over my life’s way there falls the blight Of sunless days, and nights of starless skies; Enough for me, the calm and steadfast light That softly shines within your loving eyes. The world, for me, and all the world can…

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#Black History Month #Black History Month 23 #James Weldon Johnson #love poetry #Poem #poet

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Jan. 5, 1980: Rapper's Delight  - Zinn Education Project

Hip Hop Speaks to Children presents powerful messages from all of these creative expressions, from James Weldon Johnson to Langston Hughes to Gwendolyn Brooks to Queen Latifah, and shows how rhythm and rhyme form a common thread among them.

#james weldon johnson #langston hughes #queen latifah #gwendolyn brooks #poetry #rhythm #rhyme

[yarixmarie]

photo taken November 20th

the type used for the JWJ ps ark logo interacts well with each other and has variety in shape sizes

#logo #james weldon johnson #yellow #red #blue

[ultraozzie3000]

College Days

For its Sept. 23, 1933 issue The New Yorker continued its serialization of James Thurber’s autobiography, My Life and Hard Times… Sept. 23, 1933 cover by Abner Dean. Part Seven, titled “College Days,” included Thurber’s reminiscences of an economics class and the challenges one “Professor Bassum” faced in keeping a star football tackle academically eligible: DEAR OLD ALMA MATER…James Thurber…

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#Abner Dean #Alan Dunn #Barbara Shermund #Clavilux Color Organ #Daniel &039;Alain&039; Brustlein #E. Simms Campbell #E.B. White #Gardner Rea #Helen Hokinson #Hugo Gellert #James Thurber #James Weldon Johnson #Peter Arno #Robert Day #Robert Wohlforth #Sept. 30 #Sergei Eisenstein #Sylvia of Hollywood #Sylvia Ulback #Thomas Wilfred #Thunder Over Mexico #Whitney Darrow Jr #William Cotton

[vintagecamping]

Some boys learn to fish at Camp James Weldon Johnson.

Pennsylvania

1950

#vintage camping #campfire light #pennsylvania #camp james weldon johnson #summer camp #history #fishing #exploring #1950s