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Please send copies to this office, 301 Carmel Street, Charlotte. ¥ £ L] E 3 Again we call attention to the fact that a large number of the splendid pictures of James Weldon Johnson remain in stock. ... SEABROOK JAMES A. TAYLOR H. L. Trica W. L. GREENE J. A. TARPLEY Miss M. McIVER Vol.

Webster on James Weldon Johnson: “We were very much interested to see your article in the NORTH CAROLINA TEACHERS RECORD, and the fine attention which was given him by the reproduction of his photograph on the cover. ... Collins, princi- pal of the Johnston County Training School, respond- ed to the president’s address of welcome. ... The Legislative Committee of the Negro Teachers Association was represented by Dean James Taylor of N. C. College, Durham; Pres. J. W. Seabrook of Fayetteville Teachers College, Dr. N. H. Harris of Shaw University, Mrs. Rose D.

Wells Barnett, Mary Church Terrell, James Baldwin, Sterling Brown, Arna Bontemps, Claude McKay, Countee Cullen, Paul Laurence Dunbar, James Weldon Johnson, Huddie (Leadbelly) Ledbetter, Scott Joplin, Ma Rainey, Dizzy Gillespie, Booker T.

On Thursday, April 14, the “Epic of Man” Part I The Crea- tion of Man; Part II The Life of Man—a. young b. courtship c. marriage d. worship e. play: Part III The Destruction of Man was rendered by the James Weldon Johnson Junior High School.

MEMO: By JAMES GREENE President, James Weldon Johnson Junior High School Jacksonville, Florida Memo: Bulletin From: The Office of The Comptroller The Florida State Teachers Association through the recom- mendation of the Comptroller has established a

James E. Gregg, principal of Hampton Institute; Mr. John W. Davis of Institute, West Virginia; Miss Lucy Laney of Haines Institute, Augusta, Georgia; Mr. James ‘Weldon Johnson, Secretary of the NAACP, New York City; Dr. Robert R.

In the city that saw Albert Sidney Johnston mar- shal his men in gray, James Weldon Johnson marshals the Negro youth of the South for the advance upon knowledge and success and culture. ... In the city that sheltered Ben Butler and whose streets ran with darkened blood in the ’sixties there is blossoming today another great Negro university, named for a white Virginian, James Harvey Dillard, and presided over by a Southern white man, one ... On the spot where the guns of Grant thundered against the lines of Johnston there stands today a newspaper manned by George Fort Milton, who thunders with even greater reverberations against the ranks of racial prejudice, intoler- ance, and injustice.

the l James Weldon Johnson says, “However great or sm the power of the ballot may be, we need it.” ... In 1928 the late James O. West, of Richmond, titioned Judge Crump of the Richmond court of law a equity for a writ of mandamus requiring election judgs to permit him to vote in the democratic primary.

Group 20— (Johnston County) **Mrs. Eloise Eskridge, P. O. Box 1336, Smith- field, North Carolina Mr. J. A. Porter, Jr., Education Building, Ra- leigh, North Carolina Mr. Fred W. Pippin, Education Building, Ra- leigh, North Carolina Mr. James E. ... James A. Gerow, 2113 Westover Terrace, Burlington, North Carolina 27215 Mr. James H. Peace, Lincoln School, Chapel Hill, North Carolina Mr. Marvin D. Wyne, 121-C Peabody Hall, UNC, Chapel Hill, North Carolina Group 18— (Orange County) **Dr. Carl F. ... Isbell Brown, 10 Meadow Lane, Weldon, North Carolina Mr. J. M. Jenkins, Hertford County Schools, Winton, North Carolina 27986 Mr. Pelham T. Jones, Route 2, Conway, North Carolina Mrs. J. K.

CHANGE OF SCHOOL NAME A tragic side effect of desegregation of schools, in Virginia, is the dropping of the names of prom- inent Negro Americans, such as, Frederick Doug- lass, James Weldon Johnson, George Washington Carver, and Booker T.

Davis, President, West Virginia State College; James Weldon Johnson, Secretary, NAACP, New York City; Dr. Robert R. Moton of Tuskegee; Dr. Channing H.

Washington, George Washington Carver, Roland Hayes, Marian Anderson, James Weldon Johnson, Paul Lawrence Dunbar, Walter White, E. E.

James Weldon Johnson Workshop- cabin in Great Barrington, Mass., maintained as memorial to poet and first NAACP field secretary. Negro soldier monuments in Chicago and Philadelphia. Nicodemus, Kan.

She pictured noted Negroes to the graduates: such as Mariam An- derson. noter singer; Paul Lawrence Dunbar, writer of Negro dialect; James Weldon Johnson, writer of Negro National Anthem; Booker T.

Later, I saw this same teacher and class nearly weep when I told them of the death of James Weldon Johnson. Why?

H. .Cunningham, Mercedes Daughtery Lina Mae Welch, Clara Special Cayto, Ethel Johnson, Mrs. ... Triplett Neal, Carrie Agee Page 40 Troy Laird, Lewis Crums, Ida Shelton, Gladys Union Aitch, Uncas Valley Park Story, Mabel Vandalia Dickson, Ruth Johnson, Joel W. Phillips, H. G. Shropshire, Grace Wardell Johnson, B. C. ... Weaver, Lillian White, Naomi Wellston Hamilton, Adelle Tuggle, Katie Williams, Huetta Wellsville Fogle, Iona Weston Bell, Mrs. Mabel West Plains Penn, Lounice Windsor Smith, Mrs. Emma D. Yates Lawrena Kiser

Jeter, Area Supervisor, Agricultural Education, State Department of Education and Member, Executive Committee, Virginia Teachers Association, Richmond SELECTIONS—Hampton Institute Speech Choir, Martin Bolton, Director The Prodigal Son by James Weldon ... Johnson For My People by Margaret Walker SPEAKER: “An Educated People Moves Freedom For- ward”, Dr.

Hill, Benjamin Brawley, Margaret Mitchell, Countee Cullen, James Weldon Johnson, Zane Grey, Langston Hughes? 1 20. If reading is not your hobby or pleasure, what can the library department offer to make your pastime worthwhile?

James Weldon Johnson was best known; Langston Hughes next. 20. This information was desired to know some- thing of student hobbies. Most of the students pre- ferred reading.

She studied under James Weldon Johnson at Fisk University and has had additional study in Clinical Psy- chology at Columbia and the U. of Penn- sylvania.

Inez Juanita Evans, Teacher PARALLEL READERS The Finest in Educational Jewelry il‘l James Weldon Johnson Junior 1526 S. Adams St. . . . . T High School Jacksonville, Florida. for use with your CHARLIE E.

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James Weldon Johnson. His life is an inspiration to America—this man, a poet, dip- lomat, philosopher, teacher and social engineer.

It is the opinion of the late James Weldon Johnson that Negro minstrelsy had its origin among the slaves of the old South.

SONGS Lift Every Voice And Sing By James Weldon Johnson Lift every voice and sing Till earth and heaven ring, Ring with the harmonies of Liberty; Let our rejoicing rise High as the listening skies, Let it resound loud as the rolling sea.

The late James Weldon Johnson was fond of re- peating the story of how the Negroes got a high school in Jacksonville, Florida. He was principal of the elementary school and there was no Negro high school and no prospect of one.

If you teach, you will inspire a James Weldon Johnson to take Negro youth in a Jacksonville high school and sing a song that still echoes the prayers of our people: Sing a song full of the faith that the Dark past has taught us.

She is principal of the James Weldon Johnson Elemen- Certificate Renewal tary School at New Orleans.

In addition to concerts by the Uni- versity Choir and the Jubilee Sing- ers there will be a program in com- memoration of the life and work of James Weldon Johnson, a play by the Dillard University Players, an art exhibit, and two guest speakers. cio-

B The Wiley Reporter, student publication at Wiley College, won the James Weldon Johnson trophy, na- tional journalistic award given by Delta Phi Delta Honorary Journalistic Society for the best publication in the magazine division of the 1938-39 contest