University of Virginia Library

414a. JAMES WELDON JOHNSON COLLECTION

1 item, ca. 1920
Signed sepia photograph of James Weldon Johnson (1871-1938), African-American writer and one of the founders of the National Association for the Avancement of Colored Persons (NAACP) and its secretary from 1916 to 1930. Johnson is shown sitting against a wooden post. Signed on the bottom margin in blue ink "James Weldon Johnson."
(Barrett Library Acc. 11072)