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That liberty is a great thing we may know from our own feelings, and we may likewise judge so from the conduct of the white-people, in the late war.
James Weldon Johnson
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Born: June 17, 1871
Died: June 26, 1938 (aged 67)
Bio: James Weldon Johnson was an American author, educator, lawyer, diplomat, songwriter, and civil rights activist.
Known for:
- The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man (1912)
- The Book of American Negro Poetry (1922)
- Black Manhattan (1930)
- Fifty years & other poems (1917)
- Along this way (1933)
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