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Finally, something worth putting your book down for! Authors and readers from around the country will gather at James Weldon Johnson Park on Saturday, January 25th for the JAX Urban Book Festival.
Authors showed off their work at James Weldon Johnson Park at the Urban Book Festival on Saturday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. No description available.
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Some books you can’t find in Florida classrooms and libraries were on display in James Weldon Johnson Park Thursday night. It was part of a banned book readout event to ...
James Weldon Johnson (1871-1938), American Writer and Civil Rights Activist, seated Portrait, Doris Ulmann, 1925.
The hymn’s origins trace back to a segregated school in Jacksonville, Florida, led by activist and author James Weldon Johnson, according to the NAACP.
— Finally, something worth putting your book down for! Authors and readers from around the country will gather at James Weldon Johnson Park on Saturday, January 25th for the JAX Urban Book Festival.