Born in Jacksonville, Florida in 1891 to James and the former Helen Louise Dillet, Johnson would eventually sometime in his lifetime, become a songwriter, poet, novelist, journalist, autobiographer, diplomat, educator, lawyer and later become an active member of the NAACP (English.uinc.edu). ... After becoming bored with practicing law, Johnson met up with his brother Rosamond in 1899 and the two of them over the years would compose many pieces of music with the most recognizable being "Lift Every Voice and Sing." ... Nash resigned as Executive Secretary to become active in the U.S. ...

• Word Count: 1687
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

While in San Diego she became very active in politics where she met Kendra and Frank Alexander, who were active members of the Black Panther Party as well as the Communist Party. ... She was the voice for the voiceless. ...

• Word Count: 1404
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He claims that by studying their work it enables the later generations to learn and see working class African American women who were usually illiterate and repressed without a way to tell their stories in conventional ways to their kin and the greater public accomplish this feat by demonstrating through their quilts that they are they are persons with their own minds and voices, (38). Dee is not a part of this kinship of generations as she actively takes herself out of that picture, as Whitsitt points out, during her interlude of Polaroid snapping of everything from her earlier life, but hers...

• Word Count: 1911
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

This literary, artistic, and intellectual movement, centered in New York's Harlem, kindled a new African-American cultural identity by celebrating black traditions and the black voice. ... As it turned out, the FEPC achieved very little, in part because the committee could not work pro-actively and could investigate reports of discrimination only after it received a complaint. ...

• Word Count: 1898
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School