ENGLISH 3EE3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: African-American Literature, Slave Narrative, Fisk University
19 Sep 2018
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Johnson biography (his autobiography has similarities to his biography but they are not the same it is fiction) 1871 born in jacksonville, florida into middle-class family from the north. 1887 entered atlanta university prep school and continued on to the. 1891 spent a summer teaching families of former slaves in the rural south. Returned to jacksonville to become principal of stanton school. Ran a newspaper and trained as a lawyer (admitted to the bar in 1898) 1901 left florida with his brother, rosamund, fro new york where they wrote popular music and librettos with great success. 1905 began writing autobiography, went on european tour as a musician. 1906 abandoned music and entered the u. s. diplomatic service, stationed in. Venezuela and then nicaragua; began to write poetry. 1914 became editor of the new age, a new york weekly black newspaper. 1920 elected the first black president for the naacp.
