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James Weldon Johnson was a African American poet. He wrote Lift Every Voice and Sing, also called the Negro national anthem.


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  • UnderTheBambooTree1902PurpleMCahill

    Famously performed in the film Meet Me in St. Louis (1944), the song "Under the Bamboo Tree" was written by the Johnson brothers and Bob Cole for the Broadway show Sally in Our Alley (1902)

  • 1333 R Street, N.W.

    Johnson lived here in the Logan Circle neighborhood of Washington, D.C., while serving as national organizer for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).

  • James Weldon Johnson

    Aged around 30 at the time of this photo, James W. Johnson had already written "Lift Ev'ry Voice and Sing" and been admitted to the Florida bar.

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