BY WALTER OPINDE On this day, 17th June, 1871, a great African-American author, educator, lawyer, diplomat, songwriter, and civil rights activist, James Weldon Johnson was born. Weldon is best remembered for his leadership of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), where he started working in 1917. By 1920, James became the first African-American to be […]
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