may 18, 1922 - James Weldon Johnson
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In his column in the New York Age, James Weldon Johnson greets Claude McKay as “a real poet” arriving “like a new and flaming star on the horizon.” Johnson’s own Book of American Negro Poetry, to be published later in the year, will declare, “The final measure of the greatness of all peoples is the amount and standard of the literature and art they have produced.”Added to timeline:
Date:
may 18, 1922
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~ 104 years ago