The HistoryMakers video oral history with Vivian R. Johnson.

Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]

1 online resource (10 video files (4 hr., 41 min., 7 sec.)) : sound, color.

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Videographer, Matthew Hickey.

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Education professor Vivian R. Johnson was born on July 24, 1935 in Chicago, Illinois and raised in Los Angeles, California. In 1956, Johnson received her B.A. degree from the University of California at Los Angeles. She served as a scholarship assistant for the African American Institute in Washington, D.C. and the African Scholarship Program of American Universities at Harvard University. From 1968 to 1972, she was a social studies curriculum writer for Newton Public Schools. In Boston, she founded an African American cultural resource center and a reading program for parents to tutor children. In 1975, she earned her Ed.D. degree from Harvard. In 1980, Johnson began her six-year tenure as campus coordinator for Boston University's Strengthening Health Delivery Systems Program. In 1989, she joined the faculty of Boston University School of Education. After retiring as associate professor emerita in 2003, she co-authored a book on family, school and community partnership.

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February 04, 2021

Videographer, Matthew Hickey.

Larry Crowe, interviewer.