Download or read book Empire written by Margena A. Christian and published by . This book was released on 2018-08-28 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: African-American stories were overlooked by mainstream media until John H. Johnson showed the world the value of black life. In his magazines EBONY and JET, the publisher and businessman presented never-before-told accounts and used captivating, memorable images to share stories of black people. In Empire: The House That John H. Johnson Built (The Life & Legacy of Pioneering Publishing Magnate), Margena A. Christian conducts extensive archival research, drawing upon rare sources and a personal decade-long relationship as an employee under the direct tutelage of Johnson. She meticulously constructs the complex story of what made the founder of these magazines become one of history's greatest publishers and businessmen. Johnson climbed over racial barriers and obstacles designed to deter his goals, but he succeeded against the odds anyway while holding true to his motif, "Failure is a word I don't accept." As founder of the Chicago-based Johnson Publishing Company (JPC), he quietly funded the Civil Rights Movement, providing a platform for the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Rev. Jesse L. Jackson, Sr., to promote messages of freedom and equality for all. Johnson dared to show pictures of the battered body of Emmett Till on the pages of JET in 1955, sending a shockwave across the nation. When advertisers ignored black consumers, he showed Madison Avenue the power of profitably by including black models and themes appealing to his race. He advised presidents and became the first African American to construct a major building in Chicago's Loop. Hailed as "The Most Outstanding Black Publisher in History" and as "The Greatest Minority Entrepreneur in U.S. History," Johnson was also awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, America's highest civilian honor. The poor boy from Arkansas City, Arkansas, who picked cotton as a child, made more history as the first black person named to the Forbes 400 richest Americans and amassed an empire, ranging from publishing, cosmetics, travel, radio stations, TV shows, hair care products, and world's largest traveling fashion show.
Download or read book Succeeding Against The Odds written by John H. Johnson and published by Amistad. This book was released on 1993-10-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of America’s wealthiest entrepreneurs, John H. Johnson rose from the welfare rolls of the Depression to become the most successful Black businessman in American history; the founder of Ebony, Jet, and EM magazines; and a member of the Forbes 400. Like the man himself, this autobiography is brash, inspirational, and truly unforgettable.
Download or read book Crazy Rich written by Jerry Oppenheimer and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2013-08-13 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the founders of the international health-care behemoth Johnson & Johnson in the late 1800s to the contemporary Johnsons of today, such as billionaire New York Jets owner Robert Wood "Woody" Johnson IV, all is revealed in this unauthorized biography. Often compared to the Kennedy clan because of the tragedies and scandals that had befallen both wealthy and powerful families, This book, based on scores of exclusive, candid, on-the-record interviews, reveals how the dynasty's vast fortune was both intoxicating and toxic through the generations of a family that gave the world Band-Aids and Baby Oil. At the same time, they have been termed perhaps the most dysfunctional family in the Fortune 500.
Download or read book Catherine Weissenberg written by H G Campbell and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2017 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When I started to trace my ancestors I found what I expected at first; miners, woodsmen, soldiers, musicians and even a cordwainer. Going back further I was surprised to find Colonels, Generals, a bank manager, a Highland Chief, Scottish royalty and a Palatine refugee who sold herself into seven years servitude to get to the colony of America. There she was bought by an Irishman who took her to the frontier to keep his house and warm his bed. She had 3 children by him before she achieved her freedom. This woman, my 5 times great-grandmother is lied about in biographies of her owner, my 5 times great grandfather, William Johnson, and traduced on genealogy sites. Here I set out the truth about her with incontrovertible evidence obtained from a man known as Garter via the House of Lords in London, England.
Download or read book A Boy s Short Life written by Anna Haebich and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Warren Braedon, named by his adoptive parents Louis St John Johnson, was taken from his mother in Alice Springs at just three months old. Told he had been abandoned, Louis's adoptive parents, Bill and Pauline Johnson raised him in a loving family in Perth.
Download or read book The John Johnson Family of Hiram Ohio written by Michael R Caldwell and published by Outskirts Press. This book was released on 2015-12-30 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who were the Johnsons, anyway? If asked, most members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints are not familiar with the John Johnson family. However, two of his sons, a son-in-law and a nephew were all members of the first Council of Twelve Apostles organized by Joseph Smith, the Church's founder. John served in some of the governing councils of the Church as well and contributed significantly to the building of the Church's first temple. In these pages you will learn of the significant contribution of this family and the truth about their standing in that church.
Download or read book Gerri Major s Black Society written by Gerri Major and published by Johnson Publishing Company (IL). This book was released on 1976 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gerri Major, the late, former Society Editor for "Ebony" and "Jet" Magazines, with Doris E. Saunders answers questions about black society from the 1700 to the mid 1970's. "Black Society" was written from the point of view of a woman who spent half-a-century chronicling the activities of this often alluded to, but largely unknown class of Americans. It describes the significant role played and contributions made by the black upper-class within the historical context of the past two hundred years in American history. Photographs, Genealogies, Bibliography, Indexed.
Download or read book The Black Biblical Heritage written by John L. Johnson and published by Winston-Derek Pub. This book was released on 1987 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Black Biblical Heritage is a book that reveals Blacks in the Bible. This interesting text is composed of 4000 years of Black biblical history, based on the geneology of Ham, the progenitor father of Africa and parts of Asia. Other than the Holy Bible itself, The Black Biblical Heritage is the first book printed in North America too expose an African (or African descent) Bible Heritage.
Download or read book History of the Mohawk Valley Gateway to the West 1614 1925 written by Nelson Greene and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 978 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Who s who in Colored America written by and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Only Son written by John Johnson and published by Grand Central Pub. This book was released on 2002 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the tradition of "Tuesdays with Morrie" comes the heartwarming story of a man who gave up a multimillion dollar contract as a television news anchor to care for, and make peace with, his dying father. Photos.
Download or read book A School History of the Negro Race in America from 1619 to 1890 written by Edward Austin Johnson and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Genealogy of Captain John Johnson of Roxbury Massachusetts written by Paul Franklin Johnson and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Johnson (d.1659) and his family immigrated from England to Roxbury, Massachusetts in 1630; he married twice (once in England). Descendants lived in New England, New York, Ohio, Illinois, Wisconsin and elsewhere.
Download or read book Genealogy of the Descendants of John Eliot apostle to the Indians 1598 1905 written by Wilimena Hannah Eliot Emerson and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Families of Ancient New Haven written by and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 790 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Hearken O Ye People written by Mark L. Staker and published by Greg Kofford Books, Incorporated. This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using clues from numerous archives, privately held records, museum collections, and even the soil where early members planted corn and homes, the author reconstructs the cultural experiences by which Kirtland's Latter-day Saints made sense of the revelations Joseph Smith pronounced.
Download or read book Congressional Record written by United States. Congress and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 1324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
