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Feb. 10 In Honor of John H. Johnson

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John H. Johnson January 19, 1918 – August 8, 2005 African American Entrepreneur and Publisher Started the first commercially successful black magazine, The Negro Digest, in 1942 Later produced the more successful Ebony (1945) and Jet (1951) magazines For more information: Ebony, March 1982, p. 129  (searchable in Google Books) http://www.thehistorymakers.com/biography/biography.asp?bioindex=1047&category=mediaMakers http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/09/business/media/09johnson.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_H._Johnson

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