![]() ![]() ![]() She returned to Atlanta and served briefly as a school principal, and in 1903 she married Henry Lincoln Johnson, a prominent attorney and Republican politician, and they moved in 1910 to Washington, D.C. 3 ) In 1893 she graduated from the Normal School of Atlanta University and, after teaching school in Atlanta and nearby Marietta, she attended Oberlin Conservatory in Ohio. (In an autobiographical sketch Johnson recalled her first school days were in Rome, Georgia, and while still a young child she moved to Atlanta with her mother. Georgia Blanche Douglas Camp was born on September 10, 1877, in Atlanta, Georgia to Laura (nee Douglas) and George Camp. 2 Johnson published her poetry to considerable acclaim between the 20th century’s world wars, and her one-act plays helped to drive the community-based New Negro Little Theatre movement of the era. Harper, 1 and Georgia’s most famous black woman writer before Alice Walker. Atlanta-born Georgia Douglas Johnson was the best known African-American woman poet of her time, as well as an accomplished playwright and journalist.Īt the peak of her popularity n the 1920s and 1930s, Johnson was the most widely-read black woman poet in America since the abolitionist Frances E.W. ![]()
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