James Weldon Johnson - Awards, Honors, and Legacy

Awards, Honors, and Legacy

• James Weldon Johnson building is named in his honor at Coppin State University.
• James Weldon Johnson Middle School is named in his honor.
• On February 2, 1988, the United States Postal Service issued a 22 cent postage stamp in his honor.
• In 2002, scholar Molefi Kete Asante listed James Weldon Johnson on his list of 100 Greatest African Americans.
• Spingarn Medal from the NAACP, 1925 for outstanding achievement by an American Negro.
• Harmon Gold Award for God's Trombones: Seven Negro Sermons in Verse.
• Julius Rosenwald Fund Grant, 1929.
• W. E. B. Du Bois Prize for Negro Literature, 1933, named first incumbent of Spence Chair of Creative Literature at Fisk University.
• Honorary Master's degree from Atlanta University.
• Honorary doctorates from Talladega College and Howard University.