James Weldon Johnson Jr.

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gptkbp:instanceOf Person
gptkbp:advocatesFor Voting_rights_for_African_Americans
Education_for_African_Americans
gptkbp:associatedWith gptkb:National_Urban_League
gptkb:The_Crisis_magazine
gptkb:NAACP
gptkb:The_National_Association_for_the_Advancement_of_Colored_People
gptkb:The_Urban_League
gptkbp:awardedBy Spingarn Medal
gptkbp:born June 17, 1871
gptkbp:children James_Weldon_Johnson_III
gptkbp:contributedTo gptkb:Harlem_Renaissance
gptkbp:died June 26, 1938
gptkbp:education gptkb:Clark_Atlanta_University
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label James Weldon Johnson Jr.
gptkbp:influenced gptkb:Alice_Walker
gptkb:Langston_Hughes
gptkb:Richard_Wright
gptkb:Zora_Neale_Hurston
gptkb:Gwendolyn_Brooks
gptkbp:influencedBy gptkb:Paul_Laurence_Dunbar
gptkbp:involvedIn gptkb:Civil_Rights_Movement
gptkbp:knownFor Activism in the arts
Poetry and songwriting
Advocacy_for_African_American_rights
Cultural_contributions_to_African_American_literature
gptkbp:members gptkb:American_Academy_of_Arts_and_Letters
gptkbp:notableWork Lift Every Voice and Sing
The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man
gptkbp:occupation Civil Rights Activist
Diplomat
Writer
gptkbp:placeOfBirth gptkb:Jacksonville,_Florida
gptkbp:placeOfDeath gptkb:Wilmington,_New_York
gptkbp:publishedBy gptkb:The_Negro_National_Anthem
gptkbp:servedIn U.S._Consul_in_Nicaragua
U.S._Consul_in_Venezuela
gptkbp:spouse gptkb:Grace_Nail_Johnson
gptkbp:wrote gptkb:The_Negro_in_the_American_Revolution
gptkb:The_Book_of_American_Negro_Poetry
God's Trombones
The_Negro_in_the_United_States
The_Book_of_American_Negro_Spirituals