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James Weldon Johnson

1871 - 1938

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James Weldon Johnson (June 17, 1871 – June 26, 1938) was an American writer and civil rights activist. He was married to civil rights activist Grace Nail Johnson. Johnson was a leader of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), where he started working in 1917. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of James Weldon Johnson has received more than 1,127,436 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). James Weldon Johnson is the 6,003rd most popular writer (down from 5,275th in 2019), the 12,193rd most popular biography from United States (down from 10,447th in 2019) and the 904th most popular American Writer.

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  • 18

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.31

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.81

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, James Weldon Johnson ranks 6,003 out of 5,755Before him are Oles Buzina, Maurice G. Dantec, Peter Morgan, Sylvain Tesson, Zlata Filipović, and Annie Dillard. After him are David Malouf, Gertrude Atherton, Nic Pizzolatto, James Kelman, Michael Rosen, and Kerry Kennedy.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1871, James Weldon Johnson ranks 156Before him are Poul Heegaard, John Langalibalele Dube, Edmund Breese, Arthur Surridge Hunt, Jack Butler Yeats, and Henry Stephenson. After him is Newton D. Baker. Among people deceased in 1938, James Weldon Johnson ranks 192Before him are Jacob Opdahl, Benjamin N. Cardozo, Matilda Howell, Pauline Frederick, George Lyon, and Patrick Joseph Hayes. After him is Zona Gale.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, James Weldon Johnson ranks 12,193 out of 18,182Before him are Allison Hayes (1930), Keone Young (1947), Lil Jon (1971), Annie Dillard (1945), Larry Nance (1959), and Smith Thompson (1768). After him are Willie Banks (1956), Tania Raymonde (1988), Samuel Colman (1832), Alice Evans (1971), Jeff Bergman (1960), and Chris Wood (1988).

Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, James Weldon Johnson ranks 904Before him are Melissa Rosenberg (1962), Emanuel Pastreich (1964), Alice Hoffman (1952), Cecily von Ziegesar (1970), Howard Gordon (1961), and Annie Dillard (1945). After him are Gertrude Atherton (1857), Nic Pizzolatto (1975), Kerry Kennedy (1959), Randall Jarrell (1914), Marge Piercy (1936), and James Patrick Kelly (1951).