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He worked as a lawyer and jurist, served in diplomatic posts, and contributed to the stage as a librettist and songwriter, composing in English across multiple forms and genres.\n\nAs a writer, Johnson produced poetry, fiction, and other literary work associated with the Harlem Renaissance movement. His novel The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man stands as one of his notable works in prose fiction. His engagement with questions of race and identity in American life ran through his literary output as well as his public service. In 1917 he began working at the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, and in 1920 he was chosen as the organization's executive secretary, a position he held until 1930. His decade of leadership at the NAACP placed him at the center of organized civil rights advocacy in the United States during a formative period for that movement. In recognition of his contributions, Johnson received the Spingarn Medal, the William E. 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I read with studious interest everything I could find relating to colored men who had gained prominence. My heroes had been King David, then Robert the Bruce; now Frederick Douglass was enshrined in the place of honor.",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":11,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":12},{},[],{"id":68,"quote_text":69,"author_id":5,"source_id":29,"has_image":39,"author":70,"source":71,"quote_tag":72,"commentary":12},3109041,"A space was quickly cleared in the crowd, and a rope placed about his neck, when from somewhere came the suggestion, “Burn him!” It ran like an electric current. Have you ever witnessed the transformation of human beings into savage beasts? Nothing can be more terrible.",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":11,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":12},{},[],{"id":74,"quote_text":75,"author_id":5,"source_id":29,"has_image":39,"author":76,"source":77,"quote_tag":78,"commentary":12},3109028,"With his head in his hands, God thought and thought, Till he thought: I’ll make me a man!",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":11,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":12},{},[],{"id":80,"quote_text":81,"author_id":5,"source_id":29,"has_image":39,"author":82,"source":83,"quote_tag":84,"commentary":12},3109022,"Music is a universal art; anybody’s music belongs to everybody; you can’t limit it to race or country.",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":11,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":12},{},[],{"id":86,"quote_text":87,"author_id":5,"source_id":29,"has_image":39,"author":88,"source":89,"quote_tag":90,"commentary":12},3109017,"I’m lonely I’ll make me a world.",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":11,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":12},{},[],{"id":92,"quote_text":93,"author_id":5,"source_id":29,"has_image":39,"author":94,"source":95,"quote_tag":96,"commentary":12},3109011,"My boy, you are by blood, by appearance, by education, and by tastes a white man. Now, why do you want to throw your life away amidst the poverty and ignorance, in the hopeless struggle, of the black people of the United States?",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":11,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":12},{},[],{"currentPage":98,"totalPages":17,"totalItems":8,"itemsPerPage":17},1]