James Weldon Johnson Home

James Weldon Johnson Home is a Tennessee historical marker in Davidson County.

Davidson Co, Nashville, 911 D. B. Johnson Todd Blvd.

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This Dutch Colonial house was built in 1931 for James Weldon Johnson. He served as U.S. Consul to Venezuela and Nicaragua, editor of the New York Age, and field secretary of the NAACP. Johnson's poem, "Lift Every Voice and Sing," set to music by his brother, J. Rosamond Johnson, is renowned as the Negro National Anthem. Johnson occupied the Adam K. Spence Chair of Creative Literature and taught creative writing at Fisk University from 1931 until his death in 1938.

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1895 · Battle-field, Nashville, Tenn. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1903 · Greenbrier, Tennessee (USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection)
1932 · Nashville, Tennessee (USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection)
1950 · Complete map of Nashville and suburbs (Historical map archives, georeferenced via Allmaps)
1952 · Nashville West, Tennessee (USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection)

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