Series 3. James Weldon Johnson Papers, 1918-1970, inclusive
Extent
Scope and Contents
The series includes documents compiled by Richetta Randolph Wallace in connection with her work for James Weldon Johnson at the NAACP and as his personal secretary. The series includes much correspondence between the two from the 1920s in relation to business matters. The series includes a full typescript draft of Johnson's Black Manhattan, with notes, plus a galley proof of the book, as well as one folder of research conducted by Randolph for Johnson. Johnson was killed in a car accident in 1938, and the collection contains newspaper clippings about his death, plus letters to and from Carl Van Vechten, who compiled Johnson's papers into a collection currently housed at Yale University. Biographical and autobiographical material, articles, congratulatory letters, and a small collection of materials on Johnson's 1929 trip to Japan are also included.
Arrangement
The series is organized in alphabetical order by subject or document type.
Articles by James Weldon Johnson, 1918-1928, inclusive
General
"Africa in the world democracy," with Horace Meyer Kallen (1919), "Changing status of Negro labor," Address (1918), "The larger success," from The Southern Worker (1923), "Leadership and the times," Address to the NAACP (1937), "Legal aspects of the Negro problem," with Herbert Seligman (1928), "Race problem and peace" (1924), "Self-Determining Haiti" (1920), "Washington riots: An NAACP investigation" (1919), "What America owes the Negro," from Our World (1923).
Articles by James Weldon Johnson (oversize), 1924, inclusive
General
"Lynching: America's national disgrace" (1924)
