James Weldon Johnson Archives - Harlem World Magazine

Display Marks Centennial Of 1917 NAACP “The Negro Silent Protest Parade” Organized In Harlem

The Silent Protest Parade on Fifth Avenue on July 28, 1917, one of the first major mass demonstrations by African Americans, will be the focus of a special display of four historic photographs at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, on view from Friday, July 21, through Sunday, July 30.Continue reading

Harlem’s Grace Nail Johnson, Activist, Arts Patron And Wife Of Writer James Weldon Johnson

Grace Nail Johnson, February 27, 1885 – November 1, 1976, was a civil rights activist and patron of the arts, and wife of writer James Weldon Johnson.Continue reading

Google Celebrates America’s Story, The 100th Anniversary Of “The Negro Silent Protest Parade”

“There was no singing, no chanting — just silence,” read the statement published by Google this morning.Continue reading

“The Negro Silent Protest Parade” Formed By Harlem’s St. Philip’s Church, 1917

The march was organized by W. E. B. Du Bois, the NAACP, second vice president of the NAACP, Harlem's James Weldon Johnson, and Rev. Hutchens Chew Bishop, rector of St. Philip's Episcopal Church and realtor John E. Nail in Harlem, on July 28, 1917. Continue reading

Harlem Painter, Illustrator And Arts Educator, Aaron Douglas

Aaron Douglas May 26, 1899 – February 3, 1979, was an African-American painter, illustrator and arts educator. He was a preiminent figure in the Harlem Renaissance.Continue reading

Arnaud “Arna” Wendell Bontemps Harlem NY 1923-1930 (video)

Arnaud "Arna" Wendell Bontemps October 13, 1902 – June 4, 1973 was a Harlem poet, novelist and librarian, and a noted member of the Harlem Renaissance. Continue reading

An Interview with CUNY’s Dr. Gordon E. Thompson on “The Assimilationist Impulse”

By Richard-Olivier Marius A general interest in James Baldwin’s critique of Richard Wright’s “Native Son” inspired Gordon E. Thompson’s text “The Assimilationist Impulse in Four African American Narratives,” (Edwin Mellen Press, 2011).Continue reading