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“But, lest we forget, we must now and then come down to earth, accept the yoke and help draw the load.”

Balances soaring lyric with the duty of shared struggle · Letter to Arna Bontemps, 1941

About Georgia Douglas Johnson

Georgia Douglas Johnson

10 September 1880–15 May 1966

Georgia Douglas Johnson was a luminous voice in American literature, a poet whose words captured the fluttering heart of womanhood, the weight of racial identity, and the quiet resilience of the human spirit during one of the most vibrant eras of Black artistic expression. Born on September 10, 1880, in Atlanta…

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