James Weldon Johnson
James Weldon Johnson
(1871-1938)
author, activist, educator, lawyer, diplomat, author of Lift Every Voice and Sing (from 1900), consul in Venezuela and Nicaragua (1906-1912), and secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) (1916-1930)
friend of Eartha M. M. White
Commemorated on 1 plaque
James Weldon Johnson [full inscription unknown]
Academy of Excellence, 521 West Ashley Street, Jacksonville, FL, United States where they was