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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

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Thank you Simmons Bank for partnering with us at the Silver Sponsorship Level to continue the legacy building of John H. Johnson! 

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Commemorative Bricks
Capital Campaign

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Children's Book
To order: Johnny Was His Name

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Books are available at:

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  • Amazon.com

  • Walmart.com

  • Barnes and Noble

  • Books a Million

  • Bookshop.org and other retailers

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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:

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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

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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

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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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  •     Ebony archives:  Ebony

  •     Jet Archives:  Jet 

Courtesy of Ebony Magazine November 1, 2021

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