After losing her job at the Department of Labor in 1934, Johnson shifted to clerical work and continued to write. Douglas Johnson Family History Douglas Johnson Name Meaning Historically, surnames evolved as a way to sort people into groups - by occupation, place of origin, clan affiliation, patronage, parentage, adoption, and even physical characteristics (like red hair).
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To support herself, Johnson took a series of odd jobs and eventually assumed a low-wage post in the Department of Labor. The couple remained in the nation’s capital for fifty years. with her husband, Henry Lincoln Johnson, a prominent attorney and recorder of deeds for the Taft Administration, in 1910. She moved permanently to Washington, D.C. She eventually became an assistant principal. Outside of her work as a writer and mentor, Johnson taught high school in Alabama and Washington, D.C. It launched a boycott against the world’s largest food corporation, Nestle, to force it. He has been a committed advocate of human rights since the 1970s, when he chaired the Infant Formula Action Coalition also known as INFACT. She also wrote several plays, including Plumes (1927) and Blue Blood (1926). Johnson, Faculty Chair, is the Director of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School and a Lecturer in Public Policy. Brimmer Company, 1922) and The Heart of a Woman and Other Poems (The Cornhill Company, 1918). Johnson published four poetry collections: Share My World (Halfway House, 1962) An Autumn Love Cycle (Harold Vinal, 1928) Bronze: A Book of Verses (B. She then wrote the weekly column, “Homely Philosophy” from 1926–32, which appeared in various African American newspapers. Johnson published her first poem in Crisis magazine in 1916. Thomas Vyse & Sons, Leghorn merchants and straw hat manufacturers London. She even nicknamed it the “Half-Way House,” due to her provision of shelter to those occasionally in need, such as Zora Neale Hurston. Church of England Life & Fire Assurance Trust & Annuity Institution London. Johnson’s home was a destination for numerous African American writers for forty years. to partake in what became known as the “S Street Salon” or “Saturday Nighters.” These gatherings sometimes included Langston Hughes, Jean Toomer, Anne Spencer, Jessie Redmon Fauset, Angelina Weld Grimké, and others. (AP) A man was killed in a three-alarm house fire that broke out late Tuesday in Douglas, state fire officials said. Johnson often invited artists and writers to her home in Washington, D.C. Though she never lived in Harlem, Johnson has been regarded as the foremost female poet of the Harlem Renaissance, largely through her mentorship of younger writers. She initially aspired to become a composer. Johnson attended Atlanta University Normal School and studied music at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music in Ohio. Georgia Douglas Johnson was born in Atlanta, Georgia in 1880 and was raised in Rome, Georgia and Atlanta.
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