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...Yale another Van Vechten gift, the James Weldon Johnson Memorial Collection of material by and about Negroes, has already been in place two years. It attracts many Negro scholars, has trebled in size since it was installed. It includes the books, manuscripts and photographs which Van Vechten began accumulating while writing Nigger Heaven, the novel which put Harlem on the U.S. cultural map. It includes, too, unique Negro musical material...
...soaked up Texas history (Bonham was named for a heroic messenger of the Alamo); he also followed contemporary politics. His hero, and the hero of many another Texan at the turn of the century, was Joseph Weldon Bailey, a towering, rugged character, a mighty orator, a political reformer who rose to be Democratic leader in Congress, then graduated to the Senate. Sam Rayburn likes to recall the day when, as a ten-year-old boy, he got permission to saddle up his father's mare and ride twelve miles to town to peep breathlessly through a flap...
Nearly all of her songs are her own original compositions. But every one has the authentic ring of the Negro's own pulsing musical dialect. When the late James Weldon Johnson heard her sing several years ago, he was astounded. "I never believed," he remarked while tears ran down his cheeks, "that a white woman could tell it like that...
Lift Every Voice's rolling phrases and solemn, striding music (hintful of the Intermezzo from Cavalleria Rusticana) are not new. They were whipped out in 1900 by two Negroes for a Lincoln's Birthday celebration of Negro schoolchildren in Jacksonville. Author is the late James Weldon Johnson, writer, lyricist, educator, first Negro to become a U.S. consul, secretary for 14 years of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Composer is his equally famed brother, J. Rosamond Johnson, popular song writer (Under the Bamboo Tree, Nobody's Lookin' but the Owl and the Moon...
...Wetumpka opened a beauty parlor to improve morale, teach trades to women prisoners. Last week there was a riot among the 300 women (210 of them Negroes) when one was told she couldn't have her nails manicured. When the screaming and scratching ended, Warden J. Curtis Weldon Sr. gave five white women prisoners their choice of seven lashes apiece or loss of prison privileges for 60 days. They chose the flogging, which the warden administered himself. Alabama's Governor Dixon promptly fired the warden...