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Lecture Schedule - James Weldon Johnson

April 9 to 16, 1933

Sunday evening, April 9, Swarthmore Vesper Service.

Monday morning, Dr. Hart's anthropology class,
Bryn Mawr College.

Monday afternoon, group of English students,
Bryn Mawr College.

Monday night, forum, Swarthmore.

Tuesday morning, Sociology group, Bryn Mawr.

Wednesday morning, English class at Swarthmore.

Wednesday afternoon, Political Science group,
Swarthmore.

Wednesday night, public lecture, Princeton University.

Thursday morning, University of Pennsylvania.

Thursday afternoon, Temple University.

Friday evening, Sociology group, Haverford College.

Date

Peabody College Y.M.C.A. Group

State University (2) Hale Jr. Group - Ph.D. Students

Bettles Center - May 3rd

Hampton Institute - Commencement Address - May 29

University - Louisiana - June 5?

ITINERARY

February 12

From 7:30 a.m. to 12:15 noon Feb. 13.

Mrs. M.L.M. Hooks
1530 Sixth Avenue N.
Birmingham, Alabama

February 13

From 6:30 p.m. to 11:20 p.m.

Memphis, Tenn. (Mr. Robert R. Church)
(364 Lauderdale Street)

From 11:20 p.m. to 7:30 a.m. Feb. 14

Enroute to St. Louis

February 14

From 7:30 a.m. to 11:00 p.m. February 15

Mr. Gilbert Harris
Jewish Community Center
724 Union Boulevard
St. Louis

February 15 and 16

Time indefinite as to arrival in Baltimore

Leave St. Louis at 1:00 p.m. Feb. 15

Mr. W.L. Hammaker
Levering Hall
The Johns Hopkins University Y.M.C.A.
Baltimore, Md.

Time of leaving Baltimore, indefinite.

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LECTURE TOUR -CHICAGO AND VICINITY
Under the Auspices of Adult Education
Council of Chicago, 224 Michigan Avenue
Miss Charlotte Sander, Secretary

Sunday, November 12, 6:30 P.M.

Wesley Foundation, University of Illinois,
Urbana, Illinois. Rev. Paul Burt, Correspondent.

Monday, November 13, 8:00 P.M.

Church of the Good Shepherd Congregational,
5700 Prairie Avenue Chicago. Rev. Harold M. Kingsley,
correspondent.

Tuesday, November 14, 8:00 P.M.

Hammond Forum, Hammond, Indiana
Dr. Hedwig S. Kuhn, 60 Glendale Pk., Correspondent.

Thursday, November 16, 10:30 A.M.

State Teachers College, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Mr. J. Martin Klotsche, correspondent.

Sunday, November 19, 3:15 P.M.

Chicago Forum, 224 South Michigan Avenue, Chicago.
Mr. Fred A. Moore, 320 Wisconsin Avenue, Oak Park,
correspondent.

Mr. Johnson is stopping at International House, 1414 East
Fifty-Ninth Street, Chicago.

Professional Activities - James Eeldon Johnson

March 24, 1934 NEGRO POETS AND THEIR POETRY; Amy Lowell Poetry Series, New York, New York

March 25, " CONTRIBUTION OF THE NEGRO TO AMERICAN CULTURE; Ford Hall Forum, Boston, Mass.

March 26, " INTERRACIAL SITUATION; Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Mass.

April 8, " THE NEGRO IN JOURNALISM; A & I State College, Nashville.

April 20, " CONTRIBUTION OF THE NEGRO TO AMERICAN CULTURE; The Leisure Time Conference, held at Peabody College, Nashville.

April 13, 20, 27, May 4 - THE SACRED MUSIC OF THE NEGRO; SECULAR MUSIC OF THE NEGRO; NEGRO POETS; NEGRO PROSE WRITERS.
Y.M.C.A. Graduate School, Nashville.

Books and articles published:

ALONG THIS WAY - THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF JAMES EELDON
JOHNSON - Viking Press, New York, Fall, 1933

SINCE LINCOLN FREED THE NEGRO (Article)
*New York Herald Tribune Magazine*, Feb. 11, 1934

NEGRO AMERICA POETS AND THEIR POETRY (Article)
To be published by *Clasmato* (magazine)

Awards: The DuBois Literary Prize ($1,000) awarded to book, BLACK MAMATAN, December, 1933.

June 12, 1934

LECTURE·ENGAGEMENTS

Friday evening, June 22, 1934; time (?)

General Council of the Congregational and
Christian Churches, Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio.
Correspondent: Mr. Fred B. Brownlee.

Subject: Enrichments to American Life Through Negroes.
Fee: Gratis; Expenses Paid.

(See folder,
further data)

Wednesday evening, June 27, 1934; time (?)

Renaissance Society of the University of Chicago,
205 Wieboldt Hall, 1050 East 59th Street,
Correspondent: Mrs. Martin Schutze, President.

Subject: American Negro Poets and Their Poetry, and read from "God's Trombones".

Fee: $50.00; Expenses Unpaid.

Dinner engagement, prior to lecture, same evening, Auditorium.

Thursday evening, June 28, 1934; time (?)

Midwest Institute of International Relations,
Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois.
Correspondent: Mr. E. Raymond Wilson, Room 901,
203 S. Dearborn, Chicago.

Subject: The Art of Being Civilized.

Fee: $100. and expenses.

Friday morning - two-hour allotment of time. See letter of
April 14, for details. See folder for data (general).

Sunday A.M., July 1, 1934; time (?)

Friends Forum, Oak Park, Illinois. Correspondent:
Mrs. Clement B. Flitcraft, 633 Maple Avenue, Oak
Park, Illinois.

Subject: ?

Fee: ?

(Note: You will be called for at either Evanston or
International House. You are to inform Mrs. Flitcraft
at which place she may find you.)

Lecture Engagements con 'd.

February 9, 1935

Toledo Forum.
Correspondent: Charlotte Sander, Adult Education
Bureau, 224 South Michigan, Chicago.

Fee: $75.00

February 5 or 12, 1935 (pending)

Detroit Forum.
Cor: Charlotte Sander.

March 31, 1935, Sunday, 7:30 P.M.

Ford Hall Forum, Boston Massachusetts.
Correspondent: Miss Mildred C. Smith,
1242 Little Building, Boston, Massachusetts.

MEMO: Send Charlotte Sander new folders.

Have you dates to fit in with Tufts College? If so
notify Mildred Smith.

See correspondence for further detail.

May 7, 1936

Itinerary (Dr. Johnson)

From Friday morning (May 8) to Saturday morning (May 9)

Care of Mrs. L. Blanche Purnelle
4252 Enright Avenue
St. Louis, Missouri

From Sunday evening (May 10) to Monday night (May 11)

Hotel Albert
University Place at 10th Street
New York City

LECTURE ENGAGEMENTS 1936 - 1937
James Feldon Johnson (continued)

December 21, 1936
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Junior High School - New York City
"Negro Contributions to American Culture"

December 27, 1936
Unity Church
Montclair, N.J.
"Bearers of Gifts to America"

February 12, 1937
Periclean Club
Birmingham
"Creative Genius of the Negro"

February 14, 1937
Y.M.H.A. (Young Men's Hebrew Association)
St. Louis
"The Negro - A test of Democracy in America"

February 15, 1937
Washington University
St. Louis
"Negro Contributions to American Culture"

February 16, 1937
Supper Club - Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore
"Negro Contributions to American Culture"

February 16, 1937
Forum Meeting
Johns Hopkins University
"The Negro - A Test of Democracy in America"

March 5, 1937
Friends School
Germantown, Pa.
"Negro Contributions to American Culture"

May 2, 1937
Interracial Committee
Columbus, Ohio
Poetry Reading

May 3, 1937
Ohio Wesleyan University
Delaware, Ohio
Poetry Reading

May 25, 1937
Commencement Address
Kentucky State Industrial College
Frankfort, Ky.

ADDRESSES AND LECTURES: (continued)

Address - American Business Man's Club - Springfield, Illinois - April 31, 1938

With a committee headed by the Mayor of Springfield, visited Lincoln's Tomb, placed a wreath, and pronounced a tribute.

Address - "The Art Approach to the Interracial Situation" - Negro Art Group - Chicago, Illinois - April 23, 1938

Poetry Reading - Comments on own Creative Processes - Freshman Group
Vanderbilt University - Nashville, Tennessee - April 27, 1938

Poetry Reading - Comments on own Creative Processes - American Association of University Women - Murfreesboro, Tennessee - May 5, 1938

"Bearers of Gifts to America" - Commencement Address - Douglass High School
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma - May 27, 1938

"Negro Poetry" - Broadcast 11 a.m. May 28, 1938

"Modern American Poetry" - Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois
June 29, 1938

PUBLICATIONS:

"Clarence Darrow As I Knew Him" - Published in *Unity* - May 16, 1938

Review - "The Incredible Messiah" - The North Georgia Review

Wrote the three chapters on the Negro in "Our Racial and National Minorities"
Prentice-Hall Inc., New York City - 1937

MEETINGS:

Interracial Advisory Committee New York World's Fair, New York City - May 10, 1938

-- James Weldon Johnson

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES 1937 - 1938

James Weldon Johnson

ADDRESSES AND LECTURES

"Leadership and the Times" N.A.A.C.P. Conference - Detroit, Michigan - July 3, 1937

"Study of Racial Problems" Blue Ridge Conference - Blue Ridge, North Carolina
August 3, 4 - 1937

Address - Fisk Club - Philadelphia, Pa. September 26, 1937

Nine Seminars in English Y.W.C.A. - Kansas City Missouri - October 2, 4 - 1937

Address - American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers, New York City
October 21, 1937

"Contributions of the Negro to American Culture" - New York University

"English and American Poetry" - Freshman Class - New York University - New York City
October 29, 1937

"Contributions of the Negro to American Culture" - Hampton Institute - November 5, 1937

"Folk Art in National Literature" - National Book Fair, New York City, November 21, 1937

Poetry Reading, Howard University - Washington, D.C. December 5, 1937

"The Negro-The Test of Democracy in America" - Old South Forum, Boston, Mass.
February 13, 1938

Poetry Reading Y.W.C.A. Peabody College-Nashville, Tenn. February 16, 1938

Address - J.E.B. Du Bois Testimonial Dinner - Atlanta University, February 23, 1938

"Poetry as a Mode of Human Expression" Y.W.C.A. Nashville, Tenn. February 26, 1938

"Contribution of the Negro to American Culture" - Seminar - Poetry Reading
Agnes Scott College, Atlanta, Georgia, March 2, 1938

"The Negro-The Test of Democracy in America" - Prairie View College, Texas
March 13, 1938

"The Negro-The Test of Democracy in America" - Fisk Club, Indianapolis, Ind.
March 27, 1938

Poetry Reading - Comments on own Creative Processes - Northwestern University
April 7, 1938

"A Glance at the Major Political Systems in the Present-Day World - Agora Club, Nashville, Tennessee - April 14, 1938

"The Negro-The Test of Democracy in America" - Springfield, Illinois - April 21, 1938