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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.
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 · James Weldon Johnson was an early civil rights activist, a leader of the NAACP, and a leading figure in the creation and development of the Harlem Renaissance.
Johnson’s poem and title play on and rework the Parable of the Prodigal Son from the Gospel of Luke.
May 13, 2011 · James Weldon Johnson 1871 (Jacksonville) – 1938 (Wiscasset) Your arm’s too short to box with God. A certain man had two sons. But his name is God Almighty. Is one of these two sons. And give me my portion now. Don’t leave your father’s house. And went into a far-off country.
James Weldon Johnson (born June 17, 1871, Jacksonville, Fla., U.S.—died June 26, 1938, Wiscasset, Maine) was a poet, diplomat, and anthologist of black culture.
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Take the advice of a father who knows: You cannot begin too young. Not to be a poet. Copyright Credit: James Weldon Johnson, “A Poet to His Baby Son” from James Weldon Johnson: Complete Poems, edited by Sondra Kathryn Wilson.
