| LC control no. | n 88141969 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Johnson, John H. (John Harold), 1918-2005 |
| Birth date | 1918-01-19 |
| Death date | 2005-08-08 |
| Place of birth | Arkansas City (Ark.) |
| Place of death | Chicago (Ill.) |
| Profession or occupation | African American businesspeople Publishers |
| Found in | His Succeeding against the odds, c1989: CIP t.p. (John H. Johnson) 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) Call to pub., 11/15/88 (John Harold Johnson; b. 1/19/18) New York Times, Nov. 19, 1990, in Lexis-Nexis, Dec. 8, 2000 (John H. Johnson, owner of Ebony and Jet magazines; age 72) 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) |
| Associated language | eng |
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