The work of five artists, on display at Bard College at Simon’s Rock, honor the memory of James Weldon Johnson, American author, educator, lawyer, diplomat, song writer, civil rights activist who established his reputation as a writer during the Harlem Renaissance in the 1920s.
“A people may become great through many means, but there is only one measure by which its greatness is recognized and acknowledged. The final measure of the greatness of all peoples is the amount and standard of the literature and art they have produced.”
— James Weldon Johnson
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NAACP leader and author James Weldon Johnson wrote “God’s Trombones: Seven Negro Sermons in Verse,” in a little cabin off Alford Road on the Alford Brook and at the Mason Library.
Johnson wrote lyrics to 200 popular songs, including the “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” while he was, in addition, a lawyer, diplomat and early civil rights leader. He wrote many of his songs in a writing cabin on Alford Road in Great Barrington.
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