1461 S St NW - Saturday Nighters' Salon

Georgia Douglas Johnson's home was the site of Saturday Nighters, an important weekly salon in the early and mid-20s that gathered young innovative African-American writers, poets, and artists, many of them gay, lesbian and bisexual. The group included Alain Locke, whose work promoting the New Negro fostered the career of artists such as Langston Hughes and Richard Bruce Nugent. Nugent, Hughes, Angelina Weld Grimké, and Alain Locke all lived within walking distance of Johnson's home.