Organization Fisk University

American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers (charter member)

Academy of Political Science

Ethical Society

Civic Club

Phi Beta Sigma

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)

Stanton College Preparatory School (principal)

The Daily American (founder and editor)

Colored Republican Club (treasurer)

New York Age (editorial writer)

American Fund for Public Service (director)

Bar of the State of Florida

Stanton Central Grammar School for Negroes (teacher and principal)

Cole and the Johnson Brothers

New York University

Columbia University

Columbia University Center for Contemporary Black History (founder)

Smith College

Fisk University Race Relations Institute (director)

Colgate University

New York State legislature's Amistad Commission

Movement for a Democratic Society

Duke University Law School

Duke University

University of Chicago

Brooklyn College

Howard University

North Carolina College for Negroes

St. Augustine's University

Southern Historical Association

Fellowship of Southern Writers (charter member)

American Historical Association

NAACP

PEN

Dramatists Guild

American Library Association

Sigma Pi Phi

Omega Psi Phi

Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia

Harlem Academy

Oakwood Junior College

WPA Illinois Writers’ Project

Yale University (curator of the James Weldon Johnson Collection)

Talladega College

Howard University

University of Maryland

David C. Driskell Center, University of Maryland

Alpha Phi Alpha

Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia

National Urban League

University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Institute of the Black World

Peoples College

Illinois Council for Black Studies

University of Toledo

National Council for Black Studies

Global Studies Association

University of Ghana

Northeastern University

University of Illinois at Chicago

Spellman College

University of Chicago

Young Men's Christian Association

National Urban League

City College of New York

Association of Negro Colleges and Secondary Schools