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James Weldon Johnson (June 17, 1871 – June 26, 1938) was an American writer and civil rights activist. He was married to civil rights activist Grace Nail Johnson. Johnson was a leader of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), where he started working in 1917.
May 13, 2011 · Read, review and discuss the The Prodigal Son poem by James Weldon Johnson on Poetry.com
With few official duties, Johnson was able to devote much of his time in that sleepy tropical port to writing poetry, including the acclaimed sonnet “Mother Night” that was published in The Century magazine and later included in Johnson’s verse collection Fifty Years and Other Poems (1917).
Apr 2, 2014 · Early Life and Career. James Weldon Johnson was born in Jacksonville, Florida, on June 17, 1871, the son of a freeborn Virginian father and a Bahamian mother, and was raised without a sense of...
Johnson’s poem and title play on and rework the Parable of the Prodigal Son from the Gospel of Luke.
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 Jacksonville, where Johnson would later become a principal at age twenty-three. His parents were immigrants from the Bahamas.
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James Weldon Johnson. The Prodigal Son. Young man— Your arm’s too short to box with God. But Jesus spake in a parable, and he said: A certain man had two sons. Jesus didn’t give this man a name, But his name is God Almighty. And Jesus didn’t call these sons by name, But ev’ry young man, Ev’rywhere, Is one of these two sons.
