Georgia Douglas Johnson

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Georgia Douglas Johnson
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Georgia Blanche Douglas Camp Johnson better known as Georgia Douglas Johnson (September 10, 1880 – May 14, 1966) was an American poet and a member of the Harlem Renaissance.

Contents
1 Early life and education 2 Marriage and family 3 Career 4 Major works 5 References 6 Citations 7 Additional reading
Georgia Douglas Johnson

Early life and education

Johnson was born in Atlanta to Laura Douglas and George Camp[1] (her mother 's last name is listed in other sources as Jackson).[2][3] Her mother was of African and Native American descent, and her father was of AfricanAmerican and English heritage.[3] Much of Johnson 's childhood was spent in Rome, Georgia. She received her education in both Rome and Atlanta, where she excelled in reading, recitations and physical education. She also taught herself to play the violin, which developed into a lifelong love of music. Johnson graduated from Atlanta University 's Normal School in 1896.[2] She taught school in Marietta, Georgia for a time, then returned to Atlanta to work as an assistant principal. Johnson then traveled to Cleveland, Ohio, to study piano, harmony, and voice. From 1902 to 1903, she attended the Oberlin Conservatory of Music.[2]

Marriage and family
On September 28, 1903, Johnson married Henry Lincoln Johnson, an Atlanta lawyer and prominent Republican party member. They had two sons, Henry Lincoln Johnson, Jr. and Peter Douglas Johnson (d. 1957).

Career
Johnson 's husband accepted an appointment as the Recorder of Deeds from United States President William Howard Taft, and the family moved to Washington, D.C. in 1910.[2] It was during this period that Johnson began to write poems and stories. Johnson credits a poem written by William Stanley Braithwaite about a rose tended by a child, as her inspiration for her poems.

Citations: 1. ^ a b "Georgia Douglas Johnson" (http://voices.cla.umn.edu/vg/Bios/entries/johnson_georgia_douglas.html), University of Sheridan 2. ^ a b c d e "Georgia Johnson" (http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.com/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-989), New Georgia Encyclopedia 3. ^ a b "Georgia Johnson" (http://womenshistory.about.com/od/harlemrenaissance/p/georgia_johnson.htm), about.com en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgia_Douglas_Johnson 2/3 5/9/13 Georgia Douglas Johnson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 4. ^ "Writers hall picks four inductees" (http://www.onlineathens.com/stories/091909/uga_494743547.shtml). Online Athens (Athens Banner Herald). September 19, 2009. Retrieved 20 September 2009. 5. ^ Georgia and Henry Lincoln Douglass, African-American Heritage Trail. (http://www.culturaltourismdc.org/things-do-see/georgia-douglas-johnson-and-henry-lincoln-johnson-africanamerican-heritage-trail) From culturaltourismdc.org. Retrieved February 6, 2013. Additional reading Harold Bloom, ed., Black American Women Poets and Dramatists (New York: Chelsea House, 1996). Countee Cullen, ed., Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets (New York: Harper and Brothers, 1927). Gloria T. Hull, Color, Sex, and Poetry: Three Women Writers of the Harlem Renaissance (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1987). Judith Stephens, " 'And Yet They Paused ' and 'A Bill to Be Passed ': Newly Recovered Lynching Dramas by Georgia Douglas Johnson", African American Review 33 (autumn 1999): 519-22. Judith Stephens, The Plays of Georgia Douglas Johnson:From The New Negro Renaissance to the Civil Rights Movement (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press,2006) C. C. O 'Brien, Cosmopolitanism in Georgia Douglas Johnson 's Anti-Lynching Literature (African American Review, Vol. 38, No. 4) (Winter, 2004), (pp. 571-587 published by: St. Louis University) http://www.jstor.org/stable/4134418 Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Georgia_Douglas_Johnson&oldid=550294536" Categories: 1880 births 1966 deaths African-American poets Oberlin College alumni People from Atlanta, Georgia Writers from Georgia (U.S. state) Writers from Washington, D.C. This page was last modified on 14 April 2013 at 11:35. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License; additional terms may apply. By using this site, you agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. Wikipedia® is a registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., a non-profit organization. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgia_Douglas_Johnson 3/3