Johnson, John H. (John Harold), 1918-2005
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African American businesspeople
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found: His Succeeding against the odds, c1989:CIP t.p. (John H. Johnson)
found: The entrepreneurs, an American adventure. Part 1, The entrepreneurs [VR] 1991, c1986:container (John Johnson, father of the first publishing empire aimed at an African-American audience)
found: Call to pub., 11/15/88(John Harold Johnson; b. 1/19/18)
found: New York Times, Nov. 19, 1990, in Lexis-Nexis, Dec. 8, 2000(John H. Johnson, owner of Ebony and Jet magazines; age 72)
found: New York times WWW site, Aug. 9, 2005(John H. Johnson; b. John Harold Johnson, Jan. 19, 1918, Arkansas City, Ark.; d. yesterday [Aug. 8, 2005], Chicago, aged 87; used his mother's furniture as security for a $500 loan to start the business empire that eventually included Ebony and Jet magazines and that made him one of the nation's richest and most powerful Black businessmen)
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1988-11-16: new
2019-04-04: revised
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