John H. Johnson - Revision history

http://hip-hop.digital.uic.edu/wiki2/index.php?action=history&feed=atom&title=John_H._Johnson John H. Johnson - Revision history 2026-06-06T08:03:56Z Revision history for this page on the wiki MediaWiki 1.41.5 http://hip-hop.digital.uic.edu/wiki2/index.php?title=John_H._Johnson&diff=2440&oldid=prev Rdifaz2 at 16:42, 29 July 2025 2025-07-29T16:42:15Z

<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 11:42, 29 July 2025</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l5">Line 5:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 5:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[File:John H Johnson Frame.jpg|200px|thumb|right|Photo courtesy of The Chicago Hip-Hop Heritage Museum - Memorial Wall exhibit.]]</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[File:John H Johnson Frame.jpg|200px|thumb|right|Photo courtesy of The Chicago Hip-Hop Heritage Museum - Memorial Wall exhibit.]]</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>'''John H. Johnson''' (January 19, 1918 – August 8, 2005) was a publisher and entrepreneur who transformed media for African American audiences in Chicago, Illinois. In 1942, he founded Johnson Publishing Company in Chicago, launching Ebony in 1945 and Jet in 1951. These publications became essential platforms for Black stories, culture, and civil rights advocacy, reaching a peak combined readership of nine million.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>'''John H. Johnson''' (January 19, 1918 – August 8, 2005) was a publisher and entrepreneur who transformed media for African American audiences in Chicago, Illinois. In 1942, he founded Johnson Publishing Company in Chicago, launching Ebony in 1945 and Jet in 1951. These publications became essential platforms for Black stories, culture, and civil rights advocacy, reaching a peak combined readership of nine million.</div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"></ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">''Young Chicagoans growing up with Ebony and Jet in their households often absorbed ideas of Black excellence and coolness, which influenced how early Chicago hip-hop artists presented themselves visually and stylistically.</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"></ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Jet’s music charts and Ebony’s profiles of Black entertainers helped set the stage for understanding hip-hop as part of a broader lineage of Black musical innovation.''</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Johnson was the first African American to be listed on the Forbes 400 in 1982 and was named Black Enterprise’s Entrepreneur of the Decade in 1987. In 1996, he received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, cementing his legacy as a trailblazer in American media and business.<ref>https://www.wttw.com/dusable-to-obama/johnson-publishing</ref><ref>https://books.google.com/books?id=YLUDAAAAMBAJ&dq=John+Johnson+public+viewing+2005&pg=PA4#v=onepage&q=John%20Johnson%20public%20viewing%202005&f=false</ref><ref>https://encyclopediaofarkansas.net/entries/john-harold-johnson-2354/</ref><ref>https://news.wttw.com/2019/04/15/johnson-publishing-company-leaves-behind-rich-legacy</ref></div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Johnson was the first African American to be listed on the Forbes 400 in 1982 and was named Black Enterprise’s Entrepreneur of the Decade in 1987. In 1996, he received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, cementing his legacy as a trailblazer in American media and business.<ref>https://www.wttw.com/dusable-to-obama/johnson-publishing</ref><ref>https://books.google.com/books?id=YLUDAAAAMBAJ&dq=John+Johnson+public+viewing+2005&pg=PA4#v=onepage&q=John%20Johnson%20public%20viewing%202005&f=false</ref><ref>https://encyclopediaofarkansas.net/entries/john-harold-johnson-2354/</ref><ref>https://news.wttw.com/2019/04/15/johnson-publishing-company-leaves-behind-rich-legacy</ref></div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[Category:Entrepreneurs]]</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[Category:Entrepreneurs]]</div></td></tr> </table>

Rdifaz2 http://hip-hop.digital.uic.edu/wiki2/index.php?title=John_H._Johnson&diff=2438&oldid=prev Rdifaz2 at 16:30, 29 July 2025 2025-07-29T16:30:36Z

<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 11:30, 29 July 2025</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l1">Line 1:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 1:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[File:John H Johnson Frame.jpg|200px|thumb|right|Memorial]]</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> </div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"><div style="border: 1px solid #aaa; background-color: #f9f9f9; padding: 10px; margin: 10px 0; font-size: 1.2em;"></ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">For your reference, there is a well maintained [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_H._Johnson ''Wikipedia article''] for this individual . This page is meant to explicate this individual's connection to Chicago and hip-hop culture. </ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"></div></ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[File:John H Johnson Frame.jpg|200px|thumb|right|<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Photo courtesy of The Chicago Hip-Hop Heritage Museum - </ins>Memorial <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Wall exhibit.</ins>]]</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>'''John H. Johnson''' (January 19, 1918 – August 8, 2005) was a publisher and entrepreneur who transformed media for African American audiences in Chicago, Illinois. In 1942, he founded Johnson Publishing Company in Chicago, launching Ebony in 1945 and Jet in 1951. These publications became essential platforms for Black stories, culture, and civil rights advocacy, reaching a peak combined readership of nine million.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>'''John H. Johnson''' (January 19, 1918 – August 8, 2005) was a publisher and entrepreneur who transformed media for African American audiences in Chicago, Illinois. In 1942, he founded Johnson Publishing Company in Chicago, launching Ebony in 1945 and Jet in 1951. These publications became essential platforms for Black stories, culture, and civil rights advocacy, reaching a peak combined readership of nine million.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> </table>

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<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 10:20, 29 July 2025</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l1">Line 1:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 1:</td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">[[File:John H Johnson Frame.jpg|200px|thumb|right|Memorial]]</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>'''John H. Johnson''' (January 19, 1918 – August 8, 2005) was a publisher and entrepreneur who transformed media for African American audiences in Chicago, Illinois. In 1942, he founded Johnson Publishing Company in Chicago, launching Ebony in 1945 and Jet in 1951. These publications became essential platforms for Black stories, culture, and civil rights advocacy, reaching a peak combined readership of nine million.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>'''John H. Johnson''' (January 19, 1918 – August 8, 2005) was a publisher and entrepreneur who transformed media for African American audiences in Chicago, Illinois. In 1942, he founded Johnson Publishing Company in Chicago, launching Ebony in 1945 and Jet in 1951. These publications became essential platforms for Black stories, culture, and civil rights advocacy, reaching a peak combined readership of nine million.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> </table>

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<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 14:55, 17 July 2025</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l1">Line 1:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 1:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>'''John H. Johnson'''</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>'''John H. Johnson''' <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">(January 19, 1918 – August 8, 2005) was a publisher and entrepreneur who transformed media for African American audiences in Chicago, Illinois. In 1942, he founded Johnson Publishing Company in Chicago, launching Ebony in 1945 and Jet in 1951. These publications became essential platforms for Black stories, culture, and civil rights advocacy, reaching a peak combined readership of nine million.</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> </div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Johnson was the first African American to be listed on the Forbes 400 in 1982 and was named Black Enterprise’s Entrepreneur of the Decade in 1987. In 1996, he received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, cementing his legacy as a trailblazer in American media and business.<ref>https://www.wttw.com/dusable-to-obama/johnson-publishing</ref><ref>https://books.google.com/books?id=YLUDAAAAMBAJ&dq=John+Johnson+public+viewing+2005&pg=PA4#v=onepage&q=John%20Johnson%20public%20viewing%202005&f=false</ref><ref>https://encyclopediaofarkansas.net/entries/john-harold-johnson-2354/</ref><ref>https://news.wttw.com/2019/04/15/johnson-publishing-company-leaves-behind-rich-legacy</ref></ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> </div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">[[Category:Entrepreneurs]]</ins></div></td></tr> </table>

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