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in 1925. This outspoken, dramatic writing about racial violence is sometimes credited with her obscurity as a playwright since such topics were not considered appropriate for a woman at that time. Unlike many African-American playwrights, Johnson refused to give her plays a happy ending since she did
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is a folk drama that relates the dilemma of Charity, the main character, whose baby daughter is dying. She has saved up money for the doctor, but also she and her confidante - Tilde - don't believe the medical care would be successful. She has in mind an extravagant funeral for her daughter instead -
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In 1965, Atlanta University presented Douglas with an honorary doctorate of literature, praising her as a "sensitive singer of sad songs; faithful interpreter of the feminine heart of a Negro with its joys, sorrows, limitations and frustrations of racial oppression in a male-dominated world; dreamer
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One of the articles that focused on spirituality was "Our Fourth Eye", in which she wrote about "closing one's natural eyes" to look with the "eyes of one's mind". She explains that the "fourth eye" assists with viewing the world in this way. Another essay of Johnson's, titled "Hunch", discusses the
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Johnson was a well-known figure in the national black theatre movement and was an important "cultural sponsor" in the early twentieth century, assembling and inspiring the intellectuals and artists who generated the next group of black theatre and rising education (16). Johnson wrote about 28 plays.
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party member who was ten years older than she. Douglas and Johnson had two sons, Henry Lincoln Johnson, Jr., and Peter Douglas Johnson (d. 1957). In 1910, they moved to Washington, DC, as her husband had been appointed as Recorder of Deeds for the District of Columbia, a political patronage position
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Johnson called her home the "Half Way House" for friends traveling, and a place where they "could freely discuss politics and personal opinions" and where those with no money and no place to stay would be welcome. Although black men were allowed to attend, it mostly consisted of black women such as
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personal qualities that are not as much in the public eye: his love and tenderness for Ann, who he met while still enslaved, and then was married to in freedom for over four decades. Other themes include the spirit of survival, the need for self-education, and the value of the community and of the
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During the 1920s, Douglas Johnson traveled extensively to give poetry readings. In 1925 her husband died, and she was widowed at the age of 45. She had to rear their two teenage sons by herself. For years she struggled to support them financially, sometimes taking the clerical jobs generally
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is credited with the rediscovery of many of Johnson's plays. The 28 plays that she wrote were divided into four groups: "Primitive Life Plays", "Plays of Average Negro Life", "Lynching Plays" and "Radio Plays". The first section, "Primitive Life Plays", features
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and ran from 1926 to 1932. Some of the topics she wrote on were considered inspirational and spiritual for her audience, such as "Hunch", "Magnetic Personality", and "The Blessing of Work." Some of her work was known to help people cope with the hardships of the
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When she died in Washington, D.C., in 1966, one of her sister playwrights and a former participant of the S Street Salon, sat by her bedside "stroking her hand and repeating the words, 'Poet Georgia Douglas
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describes the escape of a black couple from slavery, in a work about the importance of self-love, the use of religion for support, and the power of strong relationships between black men and women. Her work
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idea that people have hunches, or intuition, in their lives. She goes on to explain that individuals must not quiet these hunches because they are their "sixth sense– your instruction".
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Douglas' marital life was affected by her writing ambition, for her husband was not supportive of her literary passion, insisting that she devote more time to becoming a
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She had already begun to submit poems to newspapers and small magazines when she lived in Atlanta. Her first poem was published in 1905 in the literary journal
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In the 21st century, her poems have been described as feminine and "ladylike", or "raceless". They have titles such a "Faith", "Youth", and "Joy".
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genre play written to convince Congress to pass anti-lynching laws. This lesser known play premiered in Xoregos Performing Company's program: "
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Between 1926 and 1932, she wrote short stories, started a letter club, and published a weekly newspaper column called "Homely Philosophy".
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Soon after her husband's death, Johnson began to host what became 40 years of weekly "Saturday Salons" for friends and authors, including
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Throughout her life, Johnson had written 200 poems, 28 plays and 31 short stories. In 1962, she published her last poetry book, entitled
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Stevens, Judith L. (Spring–Summer 2005). "Art, Activism, and Uncompromising Attitude in Georgia Douglas Johnson's Lynching Plays".
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not feel it was a realistic outcome. As a result, Johnson had difficulty getting plays published. Though she was involved in the
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Johnson's literary success resulted in her becoming the first African-American woman to get national notice for her poetry since
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had a popular theme of racial issues; she continued to explore motherhood and being a woman of color. In the foreword of
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she said: "Those who know what it means to be a colored woman in 1922– know it not so much in fact as in feeling ..."
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was published under the pen name John Temple. Many of her plays were never published because of her gender and race.
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Although Johnson spoke out against race inequity as a whole, she is more known as a key advocate in the
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drama tradition. Her activism is primarily expressed through her plays, first appearing in the play
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Staging Faith: Religion and African American Theater from the Harlem Renaissance to World War II.
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The Plays of Georgia Douglas Johnson: From the New Negro Renaissance to the Civil Rights Movement
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The Plays of Georgia Douglas Johnson:From The New Negro Renaissance to the Civil Rights Movement
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But as a gesture to her late husband's loyalty and political service, Republican President
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Forgotten Readers: Recovering the Lost History of African American Literary Societies
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Like several other plays that prominent women of the Harlem Renaissance wrote,
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In September 2009, it was announced that Johnson would be inducted into the
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Johnson published a total of four volumes of poetry, beginning in 1916 with
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was produced by the Harlem Experimental Theatre between 1928 and 1931.
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Color, Sex & Poetry: Three Women Writers of the Harlem Renaissance
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than on publishing poetry. But she later dedicated two poems to him, "
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Cosmopolitanism in Georgia Douglas Johnson's Anti-Lynching Literature
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Color, Sex, and Poetry: Three Women Writers of the Harlem Renaissance
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The column was published in 20 different newspapers, including the
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literary center of New York, to which Douglas became attracted.
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Johnson was one of the only women whose work was published in
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Their Place on the Stage: Black Women Playwrights in America
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Her first collection of poems was not published until 1916.
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Plays of Negro Life: A Source-Book of Native American Drama
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Colored No More: Reinventing Black Womanhood in Washington
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Atkins, Alyssa, Theresa Crushshon and Chanida Phaengdara.
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While it breaks, breaks, breaks on the sheltering bars.
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She was born as Georgia Blanche Douglas Camp in 1880 in
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Johnson was well recognized for her poems collected in
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The Cambridge Companion to American Women Playwrights
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The Oxford Companion to African American Literature
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