The peculiar fascination which the South held over my imagination and my limited capital decided me in favor of Atlanta University; so about the last of September I bade farewell to the friends and scenes of my boyhood and boarded a train for the South. — James Weldon Johnson

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James Weldon Johnson : American Poet
Born:  June 17, 1871
Died:  June 26, 1938