Judson Douglas Wetmore (died 1930) was a lawyer in Jacksonville, Florida. He and Isaac Lawrence Purcell challenged state law requiring segregated streetcars (Avery Law).[1][2]
A nasty comic of him relating to a city council election was published.[3]
He corresponded with W. E. B. Du Bois.[4] He was a childhood friend and business partner of James Weldon Johnson.[1] He wrote to Booker T. Washington.[5]
Wetmore moved to New York City with his family. He criticized discrimination at the federal level. Booker T. Washington was critical of him.[6]
James Weldon Johnson fictionalized an African American passing as white in his book, An Ex-Colored Man.[7] He advertised his office at 5 Beekman Street in New York City.[8]
He had two brothers.[9] In 1930 his health was failing and he committed suicide by shooting himself at his summer home in Greenwich, Connecticut.[10] He married twice and had three children.[10]