January 19, 1918 John Harold Johnson, publisher and businessman, was born in Arkansas City, Arkansas. In 1933, Johnson and his family moved to Chicago, Illinois. After graduating from high school, he took a job as an office boy at Supreme Life Insurance Company and within two years had moved up to assistant to the president. […]
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John Harold Johnson – January 19th in African American History
By Chimsima Zuhri on January 19, 2013 in African American History, Author, January
Tags: Ebony Magazine, Harvard University, Johnson College Prep Charter School, NAACP, Presidential Medal of Freedom, publisher, Spingarn Medal, University of Southern California, Wayne State University
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