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.
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