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John H. Johnson

American businessman and publisher

For the Minor League Baseball executive, see John H. Johnson (baseball).

John Harold Johnson (January 19, 1918 – August 8, 2005^[2]) was an American businessman and publisher. Johnson was the founder in 1942 of the Johnson Publishing Company, headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. Johnson's company, with its Ebony (1945) and Jet (1951) magazines, was among the most influential African-American business in media in the second half of the twentieth century.^[4] In 1982, Johnson became the first African American to appear on the Forbes 400. In 1987, Johnson was named Black Enterprise Entrepreneur of the year.^[1]^[5] in 1996, he was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

Biography

Early years and education

Johnson was born in Arkansas City, Arkansas. His family moved to Chicago at the time of the 1933 Chicago World's Fair, during the Great Migration of African Americans out of the South. Johnson endured much teasing and taunting at his high school for his ragg

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Born in Arkansas City, Arkansas on January 19, 1918, publisher, philanthropist, businessman, entrepreneur, John Harold Johnson became the leading 20th Century publisher of African American news magazines. Johnson moved to Chicago in 1932 where he attended school and graduated with honors in 1936. He attended the University of Chicago and Northwestern University but did not complete his degree. Over his lifetime, Johnson received numerous honorary degrees, including five doctorates.

After working varied jobs for a few years, in 1942 with $500.00 derived from mortgaging his mother’s furniture, Johnson sold subscriptions and with the proceeds published Negro Digest (later renamed Black World). The format was copied from Reader’s Digest, a literary magazine. Three years later Johnson started Ebony, a magazine modeled after the successful pictorial publication, Life magazine. In 1951 Johnson began publishing Jet

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magazine, a weekly periodical which reported news and developments relevant to African Ameri

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John H. Johnson: Arkansas Business Hall of Fame

John H. Johnson was the founder, publisher, chairman and CEO of the Johnson Publishing Company, Inc., in Chicago, Ill., the largest Black-owned publishing company in the world and the publisher of Ebony magazine. For 55 years, the magazine has been the nation's number one African-American oriented magazine with a circulation of 1.7 million and a monthly readership of 11 million.

Johnson was born in Arkansas City. He started Johnson Publishing in 1942 with a $500 loan against his mother's furniture. The company has a book division and also publishes Jet magazine, the number one Black news weekly in America with a readership of over 8 million. It employs more than 2,600 people with sales of over $388 million. Johnson Publishing owns Fashion Fair Cosmetics, the number one makeup and skin care company for women of color around the world and Supreme Beauty products, hair care for men and women. The company is involved in television production and produces the Ebony Fashion Fair, the world's largest traveling fas