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James Weldon Johnson medal (obverse), American Negro Commemorative Society series, United States, 1974. National Museum of American History.
James Weldon Johnson medal (reverse), American Negro Commemorative Society series, United States, 1974. National Museum of American History.
“O Southland! O Southland!
Have you not heard the call,
The trumpet blown, the word made known
To the nations, one and all?
The watchword, the hope-word,
Salvation's present plan?
A gospel new, for all-for you
Man shall be saved by man.”
—James Weldon Johnson, Excerpt from “O! Southland” in Fifty Years and Other Poems, 1917
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