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Efforts to honor James Weldon Johnson in Wiscasset and elsewhere in Maine have raised old documents surrounding the poet, playwright, civil rights advocate, professor and consul’s death on the railroad tracks downtown. Meanwhile, the state’s work...

James Weldon Johnson, who wrote the lyrics to “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” was a Maine summer resident who died on U.S. Route 1 in Wiscasset.

Post-women’s movement when a young Kim Andersson discovered men made more money, and post-Soviet Union when she was in the Ukraine and saw bread lines, the future Wiscasset selectman realized it takes more than law to bring change. Her voice broke...