Talk:James Weldon Johnson

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[edit] Johnson's pivotal role in the NAACP

I've added the following information to the article on the NAACP. I don't have time to rewrite it for this piece on JWJ, but it definitely should be reworked slightly and added to this article.

In 1916, when the NAACP was just seven years old, chairman Joel Spingarn invited James Weldon Johnson to serve as field secretary. Johnson was a former U.S. consul to Venezuela and a noted scholar and columnist. Within four years, Johnson was instrumental in increasing the NAACP's membership from 9,000 to almost 90,000. In 1920, Johnson was elected head of the organization. Over the next ten years under his leadership, the increasingly NACP would escalate its lobbying and litigation efforts, becoming internationally known for its advocacy of equal rights and equal protection for the "American Negro."

deeceevoice 11:52, 24 Apr 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Disambiguation

The 1991 science fiction comedy novel ["A World Lost"] is by James Weldon Johnson. Of course he's not _this_ James Weldon Johnson! Amazon.com and many other book sites have the author this Wikipedia article is about linked to the author of the SF novel.

I don't know if the JWJ who wrote the SF book has written anything else. I keep getting hits on the NAACP's JWJ.