Word: weldon
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...president's position went to James Richard Carter '29, of Newtonville. Charles Warner Duhig '29, of West Somerville, was elected vice-president, while Hubert Weldon Lamb '30 of Concord, was chosen secretary of the organization...
...TROMBONES-James Weldon Johnson-Viking Press...
...blaring it out, then trumpeting brass-throated, with a belt-hitch, handslap, foot-stamp and double shuffle, timed to the march of the saints of the Lord on that terrible Judgment Day. . . . The oldtime Negro inspirational preachers, what were they but God's slide trombones?* So conceives James Weldon Johnson, poet and social worker among his fellow Negroes. He has let his memory doze back for the main themes of sermons he heard as a little boy. His intellectual faculty has played over the themes, spun them into folk poems without specious aid of dialect or ungrammatical rhetoric...
...Author. James Weldon Johnson is a 55-year-old product of Jacksonville, Fla. He attended Atlanta, Columbia and Howard Universities, taught school a while, then entered the musical comedy business in Manhattan. He served for six years as a U. S. consul in Venezuela and Nicaragua. He became executive secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. For his richly racial poetry, plus his diplomacy and public service, he was given the 1925 Spingarn Medal (for "noblest achievement...
According to James Weldon Johnson of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, enforced servitude of Negroes is not uncommon. Most common, said he, is the trick of keeping ignorant Negroes in perpetual debt...