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James Weldon Johnson

American writer and activist.

Born June 17th, 1871 in Jacksonville. [ref]

Died June 26th, 1938 at 67 years old in Wiscasset (traffic collision). [ref]

Occupations
composer, diplomat, jurist, lawyer, novelist, poet, politician, songwriter, writer

Our wrinkles are our medals of the passage of life. They are what we have been through and who we want to be. Lauren Hutton