Johnson, James Weldon (sh) and Herrera, Francisco, the Younger (sh)

Johnson, James Weldon (sh)

born June 17, 1871, Jacksonville, Fla., U.S.
died June 26, 1938, Wiscasset, Maine

U.S. writer.

He practiced law in Florida before moving with his brother, the composer J. Rosamond Johnson (1873-1954), to New York; there the two collaborated on some 200 songs for the Broadway stage. Johnson held diplomatic posts in Venezuela and Nicaragua and served as executive secretary of the NAACP (1920-30). From 1930 he taught at Fisk University. His writings include the novel Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man (1912), Fifty Years and Other Poems (1917), and his best-known work, God's Trombones (1927), a group of dialect sermons in verse. The brothers collaborated on the pioneering anthologies Book of American Negro Poetry (1922) and American Negro Spirituals (1925, 1926). Their most famous original song, "Lift Every Voice and Sing," became an anthem of the civil rights movement.

Herrera, Francisco, the Younger (sh)

born 1622, Sevilla, Spain
died Aug. 25, 1685, Madrid

Spanish painter and architect.

The son of Francisco Herrerra the Elder, a successful painter, his religious works are in the theatrical style of Roman Baroque Art, which he introduced into Sevilla. In 1660 he was appointed copresident (with Bartolome Esteban Murillo) of Sevilla's new Academy of Painting, but he soon left for Madrid and was active there as a painter of frescoes and altarpieces. In 1672 he was appointed painter to Charles II and in 1677 master of the Royal Works. His greatest architectural achievement was the church of El Pilar at Saragossa (begun 1681).

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