![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In 1926, a year after the death of her husband, she began writing plays-showing a gift for poetic dialogue and rich characters. With the publication of her second book of poetry, Bronze, in 1922, Johnson became the most widely published woman poet of the Harlem Renaissance, a nationwide movement to create new African-American art. In 1918, she published her first book of poems, The Heart of a Woman, whose searing lyricism reflected her frustrations at the racial and sexual prejudices of her era. for the sake of his budding political career There, Johnson met many of the leading African-American artists of the era, and she was inspired to write-an interest she had previously pursued only intermittently. In 1903, she married Henry Lincoln Johnson and in 1909 or 1910, they moved to Washington, D.C. After completing her studies, she returned to Atlanta and resumed her teaching career, working her way up to assistant principal. She left teaching to study music at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music and the Cleveland College of Music in Ohio, taking classes in harmony, violin, voice and piano. She began her professional life as a teacher, working in Atlanta schools for about 10 years after she graduated from college. Georgia Douglas Johnson (c.1880-1966) was a playwright, poet, journalist and musician. ![]()
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