“One section deals entirely with motherhood—that motherhood that has as its basic note—black children born to the world’s displeasure.”
About 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…