Hidden Bibliographic Details
| Varying Form of Title: | History Makers video oral history with Bennett Johnson
Bennett Johnson
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| Other authors / contributors: | Johnson, Bennett J., 1929- interviewee.
Crowe, Larry, interviewer.
Hickey, Matthew, director of photography.
Stearns, Scott, director of photography.
HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.
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| Sound characteristics: | digital
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| Digital file characteristics: | video file
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| Notes: | Videographer, Matthew Hickey.
Videographer, Scott Stearns.
Larry Crowe, interviewer.
Recorded Chicago, Illinois 2013 August 22.
Recorded Chicago, Illinois 2013 August 24.
Vendor-supplied metadata.
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| Summary: | Minister, publisher, and community activist Bennett Johnson was born on May 15, 1929 in Evanston, Illinois. After graduation from Evanston Township High School in 1946, he attended Chicago State University where he studied with Haki R. Madhubuti. Johnson transferred to Roosevelt University in Chicago, Illinois and began working alongside Frank London Brown, U.S. Congressman Gus Savage, Dempsey Travis, and Harold Washington. Upon graduation, Johnson participated in organizing a sit-in at a nearby diner that refused to serve Harold Washington. He also acted as the primary liaison for the meeting between Elijah Muhammad and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. He began an independent publishing house, Path Press, in 1961. Path Press was the first black-owned book publishing company in the United States. The company published books from 1969 to 1972 and from 1982 to 2001. In 2001, Johnson officially closed Path Press to join Haki R. Madhubuti as the vice president of Third World Press.
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