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Entrepreneurs & Business Pioneers

John H. Johnson

1918–2005

Chicago, Illinois (born Arkansas City, Arkansas)

Arkansas-born, Chicago-based publisher John H. Johnson founded Negro Digest (1942), Ebony (1945) and Jet (1951), became the first African American on the Forbes wealthiest list, and received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1996.

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Aerial view of downtown Chicago along Lake Michigan, 2017; Johnson built his publishing company in Chicago
Credit: Carol M. Highsmith, Library of Congress. License: Public domain (Highsmith Archive, LOC: no known restrictions).

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Sources

  1. CALS Encyclopedia of Arkansas, "John Harold Johnson (1918–2005)" (Scholarly)
  2. BlackPast.org, "John H. Johnson (1918-2005)" (Reference)

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