James Weldon Johnson exemplified the ideal of the American public intellectual as a writer, educator, songwriter, diplomat, and first African American executive of the NAACP.
Johnson\'s novel The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man is considered one of the foundational works of twentieth-century African American literature..
James Weldon Johnson exemplified the ideal of the American public intellectual as a writer, educator, songwriter, diplomat, and first African American executive of the NAACP