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Corrected address from "1461 South Street NW" to "1461 S Street NW". Washington DC has letter-named streets, so the proper address is "S Street"; in DC, "S Street" is not short for "South Street" as it might be in other cities. |
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===S Street Salon ===
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
Johnson called her home the "Half Way House" for friends traveling, and a place where they "could freely discuss politics and personal opinions" and where those with no money and no place to stay would be welcome.<ref name="umn.edu" /> Although black men were allowed to attend, it mostly consisted of black women such as [[May Miller]], [[Marita Bonner]], [[Mary P. Burrill|Mary Burrill]], [[Alice Dunbar Nelson|Alice Dunbar-Nelson]], [[Zora Neale Hurston]], and [[Angelina Weld Grimké|Angelina Weld Grimke]].<ref name=":02" /> Johnson was especially close to the writer Angelina Weld Grimké. This Salon was known to have discussions on issues such as [[Lynching in the United States|lynching]], [[women's rights]], and the problems facing African-American families.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=86uzDgAAQBAJ&q=S+street+Salon+Georgia+Douglas+Johnson&pg=PT136|title=Colored No More: Reinventing Black Womanhood in Washington|last=Lindsey|first=Treva B.|date=April 15, 2017|publisher=University of Illinois Press|isbn=9780252099571|language=en}}</ref> They became known as the "Saturday Nighters."<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://npgallery.nps.gov/pdfhost/docs/NRHP/Text/86002923|title=National Register of Historic Places Registration Form}}</ref>
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