This poem appeared in Atlanta Daily World on June 9, 1959
This file appears in: Civil Rights Tour: Civic and Social Life - Georgia Douglas Johnson's "Halfway House"
This file appears in: Civil Rights Tour: Civic and Social Life - Georgia Douglas Johnson's "Halfway House"
Civil Rights Tour: Civic and Social Life - Georgia Douglas Johnson's "Halfway House"
Poet Georgia Douglas Johnson (1877-1966) was a nationally recognized figure of the New Negro Renaissance who attacked lynching through her writing. In the 1920s and ‘30s, she wrote six one-act plays in a literary genre known as lynching drama, which…