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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.

These persons who will retire from active work at the end of this se- mester (top) James A. Allen, formerly a teacher of agriculture and science at the James Weldon Johnson School in York- town; Mrs. Elnora W. Lewis and Mrs. Hazel M. C.

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.

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.

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.

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

Elwood, James Weldon Johnson Homes, Phila- delphia; William M. Gillespie, DeSoto Bass Courts, Day- ton, Ohio; William E. Hill, Bedford Dwellings, Pitts- burgh; Samuel L.

Kuyper, and James Weldon Johnson: American Negro of Distinction, by William Anthony Aery.

—James Weldon Johnson, Along This Way. p. 84.

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

Providing for Culturally Deprived Children EDITOR’S NOTE: This article is a progress report of the three year study by the faculty of James Weldon Johnson Elementary School in New Orleans. Mr. George S.

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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.

THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF AN EX- COLORED MAN by James Weldon Johnson Pa. 1.45 FIVE PLAYS OF THE SOUTH by Paul Green Bae0s5a el i 05 Please send the books indicated above.

DuBois, Mary Church Terrell, and James Weldon Johnson, by Dorothy Sterling and Ben- jamin Quarles. Pioneers and Patriots: The lives of six Negroes of the Revolutionary Era, by Lavinia Dobler and Edgar A. Toppin.

James Weldon Johnson was the principal speaker at the dedi- . lege, on March 13.

James Weldon Johnson S Poet Diplomat Educator NEGRO HISTORY WEEK FEB. 9-16, 1969 Theme: Changing the African American Image through History

Strange, principal of James Weldon Johnson Elementary School of Mt. Calm, Texas, graduate of Paul Quinn College, who has 15 years of service. The association will hold similar services each year. Association offi- cers include R. C.

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.

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James Weldon Johnson of Fisk Uni- i i are graduating from recognized schools each e Baroies & Chrnem: oo zann oy o Magnolia tance, ang plans were made for Epecid.

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.

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.