—African Amerian Heritage Trail, Washington, DC —
1461 S Street, NWDuring the 1920s and 1930s, this house hosted a Saturday evening literary salon, welcoming such luminaries as Alice Dunbar Nelson, Angelina Grimké, Langston Hughes, Alain Locke, Kelly Miller, and Jean Toomer. Poet and hostess Georgia Douglas Johnson (1877-1966) graduated from the Oberlin Conservatory before moving to Washington in 1910. Here her writing career flourished, making her a nationally recognized figure of the New Negro Renaissance. Besides poetry, Johnson wrote songs, short stories, plays, and a syndicated newspaper column, "Homely Philosophy." Johnson's husband, attorney Henry Lincoln Johnson, was appointed by President Taft as recorder of deeds for the city in 1912.Caption:Georgia Douglas Johnson, 1920sMoorland-Spingarn Research Center, Howard University| HM Number | HM1TCX |
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| Placed By | Cultural Tourism DC |
| Marker Condition | No reports yet |
| Date Added | Friday, July 29th, 2016 at 9:02pm PDT -07:00 |
| UTM (WGS84 Datum) | 18S E 323627 N 4309213 |
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| Decimal Degrees | 38.91411667, -77.03428333 |
| Degrees and Decimal Minutes | N 38° 54.847', W 77° 2.057' |
| Degrees, Minutes and Seconds | 38° 54' 50.82" N, 77° 2' 3.42" W |
| Driving Directions | Google Maps |
| Area Code(s) | 202 |
| Which side of the road? | Marker is on the right when traveling East |
| Closest Postal Address | At or near 1461 S St NW, Washington DC 20009, US |
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