This was important, considering the fields that she and her siblings ended up in, such as teaching, physics, pharmacy, and ministerial work.

[3] Her poem The Story of Lovers Leap was inspired by a famous resorts in the South, Greenbrier White Sulpher Springs in West Virginia.

[8] Johnson aimed at confronting gender restrictions in her work despite its critical consequences on black female writers.

Doing so, she showcases how conditional it was for women of color to learn and use conventional language in order to be accepted in society.

[12] Moreover, in much of her poetry, both her male and female subjects serve as exemplars of educational development and moral strength, and as such support the idea of racial uplift.