“I don’t write happy endings.” –Georgia Douglas Johnson

PICTURE THE SCENE: An eclectic cohort of the Black Intelligentsia partaking in Johnson’s famous homemade wine and cake, while strategizing, debating opinions and views through their artistic endeavors on how to confront the societal injustices that Negroes faced during the racially troubled times in America. For more than decade, Johnson’s literary salon gatherings were a significant milestone for DC’s Renaissance and the New Negro Movement. The trailblazing Black Women dramatists and poets associated with the salon include Zora Neale Hurston,  Marita Bonner, Angelina Weld Grimké and Mary P. Burrill, among many others.