Georgia Douglas Johnson
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Georgia Douglas Johnson
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Georgia Douglas Johnson was born in Atlanta, Georgia in 1880. She went to college and became an assistant principle in Atlanta up until she moved to Washington, D.C. in 1910. She lived there with her husband up until his death in 1925. Johnson's house became a place for authors to join together and do their work. Her first poems started being published in 1916 in The Crisis. Georgia had a weekly column that she would write titled "Homely Philosophy" from 1916 up until 1932. In this time Georgia had also written multiple plays including Blue Blood and Plumes. During the 1920's she often traveled and gave poetry readings of her work.