9
Chicchan
Red
Solar Serpent
I
mine the Depths
Traveling
on instinct
Pulling
Rubies, Diamonds
From
the Walls
Plucking
perfect Pearls
From
the oyster Shell –
I
drop
Into
Realms chthonic –
Into
Realms Plutonic
Underneath
the Sea
To
Luz – the City -
My
Home of
Many
Mansions –
My Soul.
©Kleomichele Leeds
Kathryn Magnolia Johnson (December 15, 1878 – May 1955) was an American political activist who began working as a teacher before becoming one of the first members of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. After criticizing the organization’s all white leadership roles, Johnson joined the Young Men’s Christian Association. After the organization sent Johnson to France to observe during World War I, Johnson published a book about her findings called, Two Colored Women with the American Expeditionary Forces (1920). This book was written with Addie Waites Hunton. The rest of Johnson’s life was dedicated to spreading African American activism across the states through book selling to help in the campaign for civil rights.
Kathryn Magnolia was born on December 15 of 1878 in Darke County, Ohio. Johnson’s parents were Walter and Lucinda Jane McCown Johnson. Johnson went to high school in New Paris, Ohio and graduated in 1895. She received a bachelor’s degree and a teaching certificate after she attended Wilberforce University in Wilberforce Ohio. Johnson also studied at the University of North Dakota in 1908.
Teaching career and activism
Johnson’s career began as a teacher in Ohio, North Carolina and Kansas City. Johnson taught at the State Normal School for Negroes in North Carolina. She subsequently became the Dean of Women at Shorter College in Little Rock, Ark. in 1906. While teaching in a high school, Johnson joined the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People as one of the first members when it was formed in 1909. During her time in the association, Johnson was a sales representative for the NAACP’s journal, The Crisis. As a branch organizer in the association, she was also responsible for helping dozens of NAACP branches throughout the south.
However, Johnson began to criticize the NAACP for failing to include colored people as leaders. Johnson left the association in 1916, and joined the Young Men’s Christian Association. There she worked with African Americans. The YMCA sent Johnson and her coworker, Addie Waites Hunton, to France where they were responsible for examining the treatment of black soldiers during World War I. When they returned home, the two women wrote a book: Two Colored Women with the American Expeditionary Forces (1920). The book describes the poor treatment black soldiers received in the cultural climate of France during the war.
Later life and legacy
After returning from France, Johnson’s mission included activism against racial oppression by promoting literacy. She began a nationwide campaign to improve civil rights. This included selling books by black authors called Two-Foot Shelf. In addition she selected and circulated literature by Carter G, Woodson, W. E. B. Du Bois, Benjamin Brawley and James Weldon Johnson. As a bookseller, Johnson promoted reading among African Americans in order to educate and inspire them to actively oppose racial oppression. Over the years, Johnson traveled more than "9,000 miles and sold 15,000 books." Johnson's work also helped showed the possibilities as well as restrictions that African American women had during this time period.
As an elder, Kathryn Magnolia Johnson lived in Ezella Mathias Carter Home for Colored Working Women in Chicago. She died in Chicago, 1955.*
CHICCHAN
Kin 165: Red Solar Serpent
I pulse in order to survive
Realizing instinct
I seal the store of life force
With the solar tone of intention
I am guided by the power of birth
I am a galactic activation portal
Enter me.
If the biosphere is the region of the Earth for the transformation of cosmic energy, then the noosphere is the region of the Earth for the cultivation of cosmic mediumship.*
*Star Traveler's 13 Moon Almanac of Synchronicity, Galactic Research Institute, Law of Time Press, Ashland, Oregon, 2017-2018.
The Sacred Tzolk'in
Svadhistana Chakra (Kali Plasma)
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