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• Johnson, USNR.
• Johnson worked both as a school teacher and a politician. Born to Samuel Ealy and Rebekah Baines Johnson on 27 August 1908, Johnson attended public schools in Blanco County, Texas, until he graduated from high school in 1924. ... After graduation, Johnson taught at a public school in Texas.
• Two years later Johnson decided to change career fields and accepted a position as secretary to Representative Richard M. ... In 1935 Johnson spent one year at Georgetown Law School and then became the State Director of the National Youth Administration of Texas. In 1937, Johnson resigned this position to become a candidate for the unexpired term of Congressman James P. ... In 1938, Johnson was re-elected to a full term in the 76th Congress.
• Appointed Lieutenant Commander in the United States Naval Reserve on 21 June 1940, Johnson reported for active duty on 9 December 1941, after the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor. ... After completing his training in Washington, Johnson proceeded to Headquarters, Twelfth Naval District, San Francisco, CA for inspection duty in the Pacific. ...
• After President Roosevelt ordered all members of Congress in the Armed Forces to return to their legislative duties, Johnson was released from active duty under honorable conditions on 16 June 1942. ... During his time in service, Johnson was awarded the Asiatic Pacific Campaign Medal and the World War II Victory Medal. ... Kennedy, Johnson's resignation from the United States Naval Reserve was accepted by the Secretary of the Navy effective 18 January 1964.
• Former Commander Lyndon Baines Johnson, U. ...

•   On November 23, 1936, Robert Johnson recorded his songs for the first time in San Antonio, Texas. ... Yet out of this modest recording session, after which Robert Johnson collected his money and disappeared again into the Mississippi Delta, came a powerful and unique sound which forever changed music in America. ...
• The vitality of Robert Johnson's music has been reaffirmed by the many remakes of his songs, from such diverse artists as Lee Roy Parnell to Eric Clapton to the Red Hot Chili Peppers. ... But it is not just Johnson's incredible guitar playing or fantastically expressive singing which deserves homage. ...
• Cabas created the class "as an excuse to teach Robert Johnson," and the class' papers, which come out of a period of listening to and recording observations in a literary notebook on Johnson's songs, are often the best that he gets for the entire session. The students analyze Johnson's songs for devices such as alliteration, assonance, metaphor, simile, and even scan a stanza to get a feeling for each song's unique meter. ...
• This web site is designed to be not just a resource for material on Robert Johnson, for there are several of those on the WWW already. Instead, this site highlights the power of Robert Johnson's words which are still resonant in contemporary America. ...
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• James Weldon Johnson.
• The author of "Lift Every Voice and Sing" (often called "the Negro National Anthem"), James Weldon Johnson had a long career as a creative writer, black leader, teacher, lawyer, diplomat, and executive secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. ...
• A native of Jacksonville, Florida, Johnson attended Atlanta University through graduate school. ... They moved to New York and found fame as the ragtime songwriting team of Cole and Johnson Brothers. ...
• While in New York, Johnson befriended Charles Anderson, a black Republican leader and confidant of Booker T. ... In 1906, through this connection, Johnson was appointed United States consul to Venezuela and subsequently to the same post in Nicaragua. ...
• In 1916, Joel Spingarn, chairman of the NAACP, asked Johnson to serve as a field secretary for the seven-year-old organization. In four years Johnson helped increase the NAACP membership from 9,000 to approximately 90,000. Johnson in turn was appointed head of the NAACP in 1920, and for the next ten years he led the organization in its fight for racial equality. ...
• Waring's unique background, in her posthumous portrait of Johnson, recalls the imagery in Creation, the bestknown and most often recited of the poems in his most famous literary work, God's Trombones: Seven Negro Sermons in Verse (1927). ...

• The Samuel Johnson Sound Bite Page .
• The most comprehensive collection of Samuel Johnson quotations on the web. Over 1,800 quotes from Samuel Johnson (1709-1784), one of the most quoted men of the 18th century.
• Samuel Johnson: .
• —Samuel Johnson, on the behavior of the British colonists in America; "An Introduction to the Political State of Great Britain. ...
• Want ready access to some Samuel Johnson quotations and some of his more concise thoughts? That's why this site exists. Samuel Johnson (often referred to as "Doctor Johnson"), literary titan of the 18th century — essayist, lexicographer, poet, editor, critic, and famous talker — is the second most quoted person in the English language, after Shakespeare. ... (If you're not searching for a specific Samuel Johnson quote, you might look at the Sampler of Popular Johnson Quotes to get an initial idea. ...

• JOHNSON.
• Johnson was much loved and greatly hated -- not just liked and disliked but adored by some and despised by others. ...
• The journalists Rowland Evans and Robert Novak have given us an indelible picture of Johnson applying "The Treatment" to people who needed persuading. ... Johnson anticipated them before they could be spoken. ...
• Johnson was a man possessed by inner demons. ...
• Johnson's neediness translated into a number of traits that has a large impact on his political actions. ... As journalist Nicholas Lemann says, Johnson "wanted to set world records in politics, as a star athlete would in sports. ...
• When Everett Dirksen, Republican Minority Leader and a friendly rival, also acquired one, he telephoned Johnson's limo to say that he was calling from his new car phone. "Can you hold on a minute, Ev?" Johnson asked. ... After Johnson won election to the vice presidency in 1960, he "looked as if he'd lost his last friend on earth. ...
• The same neediness that made Johnson so eager for personal grandeur contributed to his desire to help the least advantaged. ... " Both in Cotulla and later, there was an almost desperate urgency to Johnson's desire to give sustenance to the poor, as if he were filling himself with the attention and affection he so badly craved. ...
• The (Vietnam) war brought out the worst in Johnson. ... Johnson fought in Vietnam for many reasons. ...
• Johnson saw liberal opponents of his Vietnam policies as disloyal to him and the country. ...
• In 1965-66 the war became a personal crusade for Johnson. ... In 1967, when Leonard Marks, LBJ's director of the United States Information Agency and a close friend whom Johnson had always treated with consideration and respect, privately suggested that the President follow Senator Aiken's advice in Vietnam--declare victory and leave--Johnson glared at him until Marks asked: "What do you think?" Johnson shouted at him: "Get out. " As increasing numbers of Americans died in the fighting and Johnson couldn't appear in public without risk of protests, he became emotionally distraught. By 1967, Georgia senator Richard Russell, a Johnson mentor, couldn't bear to see Johnson alone at the White House, because the President would cry uncontrollably. ...

• Johnson's parents, James and Helen Louise.
• Born James William Johnson in Jacksonville, Florida, on 17 June 1871 — he changed his middle name to Weldon in 1913 — the future teacher, poet, songwriter, and civil rights activist was the son of a headwaiter and the first female black public school teacher in Florida, both of whom had roots in Nassau, Bahamas. The second of three children, Johnson's interests in reading and music were encouraged by his parents. After graduating from the school where his mother taught, Johnson spent time with relatives in Nassau and in New York before continuing with his education.
• Johnson as a member of the.
• in 1894, Johnson taught for two summers in rural Hampton, Georgia. ...
• Bob Cole, James Weldon Johnson,.
• and John Rosamond Johnson.
• After graduating from Atlanta University, Johnson became the principal of the Jacksonville school where his mother had taught, improving education there by adding ninth and tenth grades. ... While still serving as a public school principal, Johnson studied law and became the first African American to pass the bar exam in Florida.
• When Johnson's younger brother, John Rosamond, graduated from the New England Conservatory of Music in 1897, the two began collaborating on a musical theater. Though there attempts to get their comic opera "Tolosa" produced in New York in 1899 were unsuccessful, Johnson's experiences there excited his creative energies. ... " The Johnson brothers soon teamed up with Bob Cole to write songs. In 1902, Johnson resigned his post as principal in Jacksonville, and the two brothers moved to New York, where their partnership with Cole proved very successful.
• Grace Nail Johnson.
• Johnson, though, became dissatisfied with the racial stereotypes propagated by popular music and, in 1903, began taking graduate courses at Columbia University to expand his literary horizons. ...

• CONTAINS TABLE ii --> JOHNSON, Lyndon Baines, (1908 - 1973).
• JOHNSON, Lyndon Baines, (father-in-law of Charles Spittal Robb), a Representative and a Senator from Texas and a Vice President and 36th President of the United States; born on a farm near Stonewall, Gillespie County, Tex. , on August 27, 1908; moved with his parents to Johnson City, in 1913; attended the public schools of Blanco County, Tex. ... Kennedy, for the term beginning January 20, 1961; resigned from the United States Senate January 3, 1961; on the death of President Kennedy was sworn in as President of the United States on November 22, 1963; elected President of the United States in 1964, for the term commencing January 20, 1965, and served until January 20, 1969; did not seek reelection in 1968; retired to his ranch near Johnson City, Tex. ...
• Lone Star Rising: Lyndon Johnson and His Times, 1908-1960. ... The Years of Lyndon Johnson: Master of the Senate. ...

• The Johnson Society (Lichfield).
•                                        Welcome to The Johnson Society (Lichfield) Site.
• The main objective of Johnson Society (Lichfield) is to further interest in the life, works and times of  Samuel Johnson  (1709-1784), the famous author and lexicographer, often known as Doctor Johnson or even 'Dictionary Johnson', who was born in Lichfield in 1709. ...  He is also often referred to as Doctor Johnson. ...
• The main activities of the Johnson Society focus around the Johnson Birthday Celebrations in September. ...
• The Johnson Society, The Birthplace Museum, Breadmarket Street, .

• James Weldon Johnson (1871-1938).
• Next to James Weldon Johnson's name and date of birth in a biosketch is the familiar catalog of his accomplishments as educator, journalist, lawyer, composer, librettist, poet, novelist, editor, social historian, literary critic, diplomat, fighter for the rights of his people and the rights of all. ...
• Some students assume that Johnson himself is the protagonist of the novel, The Autobiography of an Ex-colored Man. ...
• In the index, the entry "Johnson, James Weldon" is a reference guide in chronological order that gives the chance to examine items of choice.
• Johnson may stand in clearer relief by using an "exchange" pattern of image-making. ...
• First, Johnson visited a Jacksonville church during his childhood days where he saw the African shout. ...
• The failure of the Johnson legacy to maintain itself with the onset of Marxism and the rise of proletarian literature.
• The failure of Fisk and Atlanta universities to play a significant role in building a Johnson file of note.
• Rosamond, Johnson's co-editor and collaborator.
• In a quiet way, Johnson is receiving scholarly interest. ...
• Exemplary themes of major import in the Johnson canon begin with "Lift Every Voice" and "Bards. ...
• Johnson's reputation as a writer rests on his novel and God's Trombones. ...
• When Johnson wrote "Lift Every Voice" in 1900, he had become imbued with the Victorian conventions of English verse. ...
• Song of Myself set the stage for the freedom, individual experimentation, and the new theme of egalitarianism that appear in one aspect of Johnson's poem "Brothers. ...
• " Therefore, Johnson set the stage for future poets who desired to honor the oral tradition in their conscious literary works.
• Fellow novelists of the Harlem Renaissance who honored the theme of "passing" (Johnson claimed authorship for The Ex-colored Man in 1927), such as Walter White in "Flight" (1926), Jessie Fauset in "Plum Bun" (1928), and Nella Larsen in Passing (1929), promoted the aesthetic indigenous to African literature: art for life's sake. ...

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• James Weldon Johnson .
• Johnson was born in Jacksonville, Florida, in 1871. Both his father James, a resort hotel headwaiter, and his mother Helen Dillet Johnson, a schoolteacher, had lived in the North as free blacks. ... Johnson's mother stimulated his early interests in reading, drawing, and music, and he attended the segregated Stanton School, where she taught, until the eighth grade. Since high schools were closed to blacks in Jacksonville, Johnson left home to attend both secondary school and college at Atlanta University, where he took his bachelor's degree in 1894. It was during his college years that he first became aware of the depth of the racial problem in the United States, and Johnson's experience teaching black schoolchildren in a poor district of rural Georgia during two summers left a deep impression on him. The struggles and aspirations of American blacks form a central theme in the thirty or so poems that Johnson wrote as a student. ...
• In 1894 Johnson was appointed a teacher and principal of the Stanton School and expanded the curriculum to include high school-level classes. ... Although the newspaper folded the following year, Johnson's ambitious effort attracted the attention of such prominent black leaders as W. ... Around this time Johnson also read law with the help of a local white lawyer, and in 1898 he became the first black lawyer admitted to the Florida Bar since Reconstruction. Johnson practiced law in Jacksonville for several years in partnership with a former Atlanta University classmate while continuing to serve as the principal of the Stanton School. ...
• In 1901 the Johnson brothers set out for New York City to seek their fortune writing songs for the musical theater. ... During this time Johnson also studied creative writing at Columbia University and became active in Republican party politics, serving as treasurer of New York's Colored Republican Club in 1904. ... Du Bois, respectively — Johnson backed Washington, who in turn played an important role in getting the Roosevelt Administration to appoint Johnson as United States consul in Puerto Cabello, Venezuela, in 1906. With few official duties, Johnson was able to devote much of his time to writing poetry. ...
• In 1909 Johnson was promoted to the consular post in Corinto, Nicaragua, a position that proved considerably more demanding than his Venezuelan job and left him little time for writing. ... In 1913, after returning home from Nicaragua to settle his father's estate, Johnson attempted to secure a more desirable consular position. Failing that, and seeing little future for himself under President Woodrow Wilson's Democratic administration, Johnson resigned from the foreign service and returned to New York to become an editorial writer for the New York Age, the city's oldest and most distinguished black newspaper. The articles Johnson produced over the next ten years tended to be conservative, combining a strong sense of racial pride with a deep-rooted belief that blacks could individually improve their lot by means of self-education and hard work even before discriminatory barriers had been removed. ...

• Eyvind Johnson (1900-1976) .
• Johnson's early works dealt with his impoverished upbringing and social or political problems. In many of his later novels Johnson tested and questioned the many roles of the storyteller and experimented with time, examining the interaction between historical events and their interpretation. ...
• Eyvind Johnson was born at Saltsjobaden in Norrbotten, in northern Sweden. ... Johnson left school at the age of thirteen. ... Johnson educated himself by reading and in 1919 he settled in Stockholm, where he was for a short time at LM Ericsson's workshop. ...
• Most of the 1920s Johnson spent in Berlin and Paris, earning his living among others as a dishwasher. ... On his return visits to Sweden Johnson was distressed by its sense of isolation from the rest of Europe. ...
• Johnson's first books appeared in the 1920s, among them TIMANS OCH RÄTTFÄRDIGHETEN (1925), STAD I MÖRKER (1927) and STAD I LJUS (1928). ... Although Johnson's books inspired discussion about modernism, they were not widely read. In 1927 Johnson married Aase Christiansen and returned to Sweden in 1930 as an established writer and the most important representative of experimental novel of his generation. ...
• The four-volume epic was based on Johnson's experiences as a logger and became a classic of Swedish literature. In the life of its young hero, Olof, Johnson blended fairy tale and realism. ... Increasingly disturbed by the rising totalitarianism in the 1930s, Johnson worked actively against the onslaught of Nazism and helped establish a link between Resistance in Norway and Sweden. In NATTÖVNING (1938) Johnson's alter ego, Mårten Torpare, gave his account of the times, and SOLDATENS ÅTERKOMST (1940) depicted the fate of a Swedish volunteer who had fought dictatorship in Spain. ...
• After his first wife died in 1938, Johnson married Cilla Frankenhauser, and collaborated with her in translations of such writers as Albert Camus, Anatole France, Jean-Paul Sartre and Eugène Ionesco. During World War II Johnson coedited with Willy Bradt the newspaper Et Handslåg for the Norwegian resistance and wrote the trilogy KRILON (published 1941, 1943, and 1945). ...

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