About
Born in Atlanta, Georgia, Georgia Douglas Johnson descended from African Americans, Native Americans and English settlers. Johnson studied at Oberlin Conservatory and at the Cleveland College of Music.
Johnson settled with her husband in Washington D.C. in 1910 and worked as an assistant principal. In Washington, she established an important D. C. -based “Harlem Renaissance” artist salon: the S Street Salon (at her address 1461 S Street NW).
Johnson published four books of poetry, as well as plays. She worked for the Department of Labor after the death of her husband to support herself and her two sons.
–Christie Finn
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Songs
I Want to Die While You Love Me
Henry Burleigh
Georgia Douglas Johnson
I Want to Die While You Love Me
Undine Smith Moore
Georgia Douglas Johnson
Love Come and Love Gone
H. Leslie Adams
Georgia Douglas Johnson
Song Collection: The Wider View
Nightsongs
Song CollectionH. Leslie Adams
Langston Hughes
Georgia Douglas Johnson
Clarissa Scott Delany
James Weldon Johnson
Leslie Morgan Collins
Old Black Men
Dorothy Rudd Moore
Georgia Douglas Johnson
Song Collection: From the Dark Tower
The Heart of a Woman
H. Leslie Adams
Georgia Douglas Johnson
Song Collection: Nightsongs
The Heart of a Woman
Florence Price
Georgia Douglas Johnson
The Wider View
Song CollectionH. Leslie Adams
Paul Laurence Dunbar
Langston Hughes
Georgia Douglas Johnson
R. H. Grenville
James Dillet Freeman