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Georgia Douglas Johnson
Gloria Hull is credited with the rediscovery of many of Johnson's plays. Her Husband's job as a lawyer forced them to live in Washington, away from the literary center in Harlem. He died in 1925 when she was forty five and she was left to take care of their sons, who were teenagers at the time. Johnson claimed her husband was not very supportive of her writing, preferring she be a homemaker instead. Her poems appeared in multiple issues of The Crisis, a journal published by the NAACP and founded by W.E.B Du Bois. "Calling Dreams" was published with the January 1920 edition, "Treasure" in July 1922, and "To Your Eyes" in November 1924.

Anti-Lynching Activism
Although Johnson spoke out against race inequity as a whole, she is more known as a key advocate in the anti-lynching movement as well as a pioneering member of the lynching drama tradition. Her activism is primarily expressed through her plays, first appearing in the play Sunday Morning in the South. This outspoken, dramatic writing about racial violence is sometimes credited with her obscurity as a playwright since such topics were not considered appropriate for a woman at that time. Unlike many African American playwrights, Johnson refused to give her plays a happy ending since she did not feel it was a realistic outcome. As a result, Johnson had difficulty getting plays published. Though she was involved in the NAACP's anti-lynching campaigns of 1936 and 1938, the NAACP refused to produce many of her plays claiming they gave a feeling of hopelessness. Johnson was also a member of the Writers League Against Lynching which included Countée Cullen, James Weldon Johnson, Jessie Fauset, and Alain Locke. The organization sought a federal anti-lynching bill.