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Historians dispute whether this was the same António later known as Anthony Johnson, as the census lists several men named "Antonio". This one is considered the most likely. [5] Johnson was sold as an "indentured servant" to merchant Edward Bennett to work on his Virginia tobacco farm, Warrosquoake, on the southern bank of the James River. [6]
President Lyndon B. Johnson signing the Civil Rights Act of 1964 on July 2, 1964. The Great Society was a series of domestic programs enacted by President Lyndon B. Johnson in the United States from 1964 to 1968, with the stated goals of totally eliminating poverty and racial injustice in the country.
Lyndon Baines Johnson (/ ˈ l ɪ n d ə n ˈ b eɪ n z /; August 27, 1908 – January 22, 1973), also known as LBJ, was the 36th president of the United States, serving from 1963 to 1969. He became president after the assassination of John F. Kennedy, under whom he had served as the 37th vice president from 1961 to 1963.
Major-General Sir William Johnson, 1st Baronet (c. 1715 – 11 July 1774), was a British Army officer and colonial administrator from Ireland known for his military and governance work in British colonial America. As a young man, Johnson moved to the Province of New York to manage an estate purchased by his uncle, Royal Navy officer Peter ...
This led to his being known as "Liver-Eating Johnson". One tale ascribed to Johnson [5] (while other sources ascribe it to Boone Helm [6]) is that while on a foray of over five hundred miles (800 km) in the winter to sell whiskey to his Flathead kin, he was ambushed by a group of Blackfoot warriors. The Blackfoot planned to sell him to the Crow ...
Perhaps to her chagrin, Johnson is best known as the cofounder of Black Entertainment Television (BET), the media mecca that earned her the title of the first Black woman billionaire in the U.S ...
Andrew Johnson (December 29, 1808 – July 31, 1875) was the 17th president of the United States, serving from 1865 to 1869.He assumed the presidency following the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, as he was vice president at that time.
James Weldon Johnson (June 17, 1871 – June 26, 1938) was an American writer and civil rights activist. He was married to civil rights activist Grace Nail Johnson . Johnson was a leader of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), where he started working in 1917.