The HistoryMakers video oral history with Bev Johnson.

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Bibliographic Details
Imprint:Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]
Description:1 online resource (5 video files (2 hr., 21 min., 29 sec.)) : sound, color.
Language:English
Subject:Johnson, Beverly Elaine, -- 1953- -- Interviews.
African Americans -- Interviews.
African Americans.
Internet videos.
Interviews.
Nonfiction films.
Oral histories.
Oral histories.
Internet videos.
Nonfiction films.
Format: E-Resource Video Streaming Video
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11318659
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Varying Form of Title:History Makers video oral history with Bev Johnson
Bev Johnson
Other authors / contributors:Johnson, Beverly Elaine, 1953- interviewee.
Crowe, Larry F., interviewer.
Hickey, Matthew, director of photography.
HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.
Sound characteristics:digital
Digital file characteristics:video file
Notes:Videographer, Matthew Hickey.
Larry Crowe, interviewer.
Recorded Memphis, Tennessee 2014 April 25.
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Summary:Radio host Beverly Elaine Johnson was born on May 10, 1953 in Memphis, Tennessee. She received her B.A. degree in English literature from Rust College in Holly Springs, Mississippi, and her M.S. degree in educational media technology from Jackson State University. She also graduated from Southwest Tennessee Community College's Substance Abuse Program and The Drug Court Institute. Johnson's broadcast career began in Jackson, Mississippi in 1976. In 1983, she was hired at the WDIA radio station in Memphis, Tennessee. She worked in a number of positions, from disc jockey to public service director to news/community affairs director, programming assistant, and marketing assistant. Johnson then became anchor and talk show host of WDIA's "The Bev Johnson Show," which first aired in 1987. She was co-owner of Heart 2 Heart Collaborations Counseling Services, and taught at Southwest Tennessee Community College as an instructor of speech and fine arts and language and literature.