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James Weldon Johnson was an author, politician, diplomat, critic, journalist, poet, anthologist, educator, lawyer, songwriter, and early civil rights activist. homeboy was also one of the first african american professors at NYU. When he was an Atlanta University freshman he went to a small Georgia town to instruct the children of former slaves. He was in the NAACP from 1914-1930 and ended up being the first black male secretary in the NAACP's history. He was against all that racist STUFF and lynchings and what not.