Legacy Sponsors
Platinum Sponsor
Thank you John W. Rogers, Jr.! We are so grateful for your support at the Platinum level to support the legacy building of John H. Johnson.
Silver Sponsor
Thank you Simmons Bank for partnering with us at the Silver Sponsorship Level to continue the legacy building of John H. Johnson!
Commemorative Bricks
Capital Campaign
Children's Book
To order: Johnny Was His Name
Books are available at:
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Amazon.com
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Walmart.com
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Barnes and Noble
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Books a Million
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Bookshop.org and other retailers
Diamond Sponsors
Peter and Linda Bynoe
Linda Johnson Rice, Chairman & CEO Johnson Publishing Company
Platinum Sponsor
John H. Johnson Day 2023 is funded in part by a heritage grant from:
Gold Sponsor
Juanita Vanoy Jordan
Andre Rice
Silver Sponsor
Nancy Davis
The Courtney Family of Halley, Ark.
Bronze Sponsors
David Meitus
Diane & Quinton E.Primo III
J&P May Properties, LLC
Neal Zucker &
Marko Iglendza
Benefactor Sponsors
Friend Sponsors
Pierre and Melody
Cooper
Linda F. Delaney & LFD Consulting, LLC
Pearl Johnson Glover
Dr. Calvin Johnson & Mrs. Verbie Johnson
John Roach
D'Andrea Robinson
Dr. Joyce Cottoms
Carolyn E. Harris
Katherine Donald
In-Kind Partners
Hazel Lawrence May
UAPB/AM&N Southeast Arkansas Alumni Chapter
Patron Donor
Linda Conley
Willie Robinson
Gwendolyn Parker DBA GLEP Graphics & Painting
November 2, 2021, U. S. Congressman Danny Davis recognizes John H. Johnson on the
U.S. House floor in the U.S. House of Representatives.
John H. Johnson Cultural and Educational Museum
(John H. Johnson Museum) is a wooden structure home built in the early 1900's.
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The Museum is named after John H. Johnson, who was born Johnny Johnson on January 19, 1918, in Arkansas City (Desha County) to Leroy Johnson and Gertrude Jenkins Johnson, a cook in a Mississippi River levee camp. Johnson was a third-generation descendant of slaves. After the death of Johnson's father in a sawmill accident when Johnson was eight years old, his mother married James Williams, who helped raise him. During a six-week period of living on the Mississippi River levee following the Flood of 1927, nine-year-old Johnson watched the constraints of race disappear when all people, black and white, were forced to work together in their struggle to survive. It was also there that young Johnson developed a keen eye for news—a desire to learn what motivated people, what their desires were, and why they wanted what they wanted.
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Johnson founded The Johnson Publishing Company in Chicago in 1942, eventually making it the country’s largest African American-owned publishing business. Besides Ebony, Jet, and Negro Digest magazines, the company's properties included a book division and Fashion Fair Cosmetics. Among his many honors, Johnson received the Presidential Medal of Freedom and was the first African American to be named to Forbes Magazine list of 400 wealthiest Americans.
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Courtesy of Ebony Magazine November 1, 2021
Curating the life and legacy of John H. Johnson, 1918 - 2005