James Weldon Johnson (Cyclopedia of World Authors)
The poet, songwriter, novelist, teacher, administrator, social critic, and diplomat James Weldon Johnson deserved the title “renaissance man” often applied to him. His mother, Helen Dillet Johnson, was born in Nassau, in the Bahamas, and grew up in New York City; his father, James Johnson, was born a free man in Richmond, Virginia, and lived for a time in New York, where he met Helen Dillet, and in Nassau, where the couple married. The Johnson family moved from Nassau to escape a depressed economy and prospered in Jacksonville, where Johnson’s mother worked as an elementary-school...
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