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The 13 pages that link to James Weldon Johnson, each with the reason it gives.

• W. E. B. Du BoisRelated: Johnson and Du Bois worked together in the NAACP’s campaign against racial injustice.

• HarlemRelated: His work linked Harlem’s literary world with organized civil rights activism.

• Langston HughesRelated: Johnson’s literary advocacy helped establish the tradition Hughes expanded.

• NAACPRelated: Johnson strengthened the association's membership, public presence, and anti-lynching advocacy.

• Lynching in the United StatesRelated: He helped make anti-lynching advocacy a sustained national campaign.

• Walter WhiteRelated: Johnson recruited White into NAACP leadership and preceded him as executive secretary.

• Aaron DouglasRelated: Johnson's poetry gave Douglas a literary subject for one of his best-known illustrated collaborations.

• Claude McKayRelated: Johnson’s 1922 anthology included McKay’s poetry and helped establish his place in Black literary history.

• LynchingRelated: He helped make anti-lynching advocacy part of organized civil rights work.

• Augusta SavageRelated: His hymn supplied the inspiration for Savage’s best-known sculpture.

• Gwendolyn BrooksRelated: His anthologies helped establish a literary tradition to which Brooks’s work belonged.

• Countee CullenRelated: Johnson’s anthology helped establish the literary context in which Cullen gained recognition.

• Georgia Douglas JohnsonRelated: His editorial work helped bring Johnson’s poetry to a wider national audience.