Georgia Douglas Johnson: Difference between revisions

Soon after her husband's death, Johnson began to host what became 40 years of weekly "Saturday Salons" for friends and authors, including [[Langston Hughes]], [[Jean Toomer]], [[Anne Spencer]], [[Richard Bruce Nugent]], [[Alain Locke]], [[Jessie Redmon Fauset]], [[Angelina Weld Grimké]] and [[Eulalie Spence]] — all major contributors to the New Negro Movement, which is better known today as the [[Harlem Renaissance]].<ref name=":02">{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nx7po3C2ENYC&q=S+street+Salon+Georgia+Douglas+Johnson&pg=PA106|title=The Cambridge Companion to American Women Playwrights|last=Murphy|first=Brenda|date=June 28, 1999|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=9780521576802|language=en}}</ref> Georgia Douglas Johnson's house at 1461 SouthS Street NW would later become known as the S Street Salon. The salon was a meeting place for writers in Washington, D.C., during the Harlem Renaissance.<ref name="Poetry Foundation" /><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/where-we-live/wp/2018/06/01/a-poets-rowhouse-in-northwest-washington-has-a-renaissance/|title=A poet's rowhouse in Northwest Washington has a renaissance|last=Orton|first=Kathy|date=June 1, 2018|newspaper=Washington Post|access-date=June 4, 2018|language=en-US|issn=0190-8286}}</ref> Johnson's S Street Salon helped to nurture and sustain creativity by providing a place for African-American artists to meet, socialize, discuss their work, and exchange ideas. According to [[Akasha Gloria Hull]], Johnson's role in creating a place for black artists to nurture their creativity made the movement a national one because she worked outside of Harlem and therefore made a trust for intercity connections.<ref name=":02" /> She has been described as "a woman of tremendous energy, much of which she channeled into her effort to create for the writers who gathered in her home on Saturday nights an atmosphere that was both intellectually stimulating and properly supportive."<ref name="Forgotten Readers">{{cite book |last1=McHenry |first1=Elizabeth |title=Forgotten Readers: Recovering the Lost History of African American Literary Societies |date=2002 |publisher=Duke University Press |isbn=978-0-8223-2995-4 |pages=269}}</ref>