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Fenton Johnson was an American poet, essayist, author of short stories, editor, and educator. Johnson came from a middle-class African-American family in Chicago. His work is often included in anthologies of 20th-century poetry, and he is noted for early prose poetry. James Weldon Johnson (no relation) called Fenton, "one of the first Negro revolutionary poets."
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