{"id":107,"date":"2009-12-16T21:28:46","date_gmt":"2009-12-17T04:28:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ncgenweb.us\/wake\/?page_id=107"},"modified":"2009-12-16T21:28:46","modified_gmt":"2009-12-17T04:28:46","slug":"bio-edward-a-johnson-1860-1944","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/wake\/biographies\/bio-edward-a-johnson-1860-1944\/","title":{"rendered":"Bio: Edward A. Johnson (1860-1944)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Hon. \u00a0E.A. Johnson, the subject of this sketch is a native of Raleigh, N.C. \u00a0He received a grammar school course in the Washington School of Raleigh, \u00a0and subsequently finished his education at Atlanta University. \u00a0Returning to Raleigh, he was elected principal of the Washington School in which he received his early training, with nine teachers and some six hundred pupils. \u00a0After six years of highly efficient work here, he was called to a position as co-instructor in the Law Department of Shaw University. \u00a0After four years in this place he was given entire charge of the department and elected Dean, and for the last ten years has been turning out some of the best products of young lawyers that the race can boast of. \u00a0Notable among these is Mr. A.W. Scott, a practitioner in this city, and Mr. J.C. \u00a0Robertson, General Counsel of the True Reformers, at Richmond, Va.<\/p>\n

While engaged at Shaw University Prof. Johnson held other important positions, having been twice elected member of the Board of Aldermen of the city of Raleigh, and for eight years was chairman of the\u00a0Executive\u00a0Committee of the Fourth Congressional or Metropolitan district of North Carolina, and was chosen delegate to the National Republican Convention.<\/p>\n

Mr. Johnson is the author of \u00a0“The School History of the Negro Soldiers in the Spanish American War,” \u00a0“The Negro Almanac and Statistics,” \u00a0and will shortly have out a new work from the Grafton Press of New York entitled, “Light Ahead for the Negro.” \u00a0His History has been adopted as a text book by the North Carolina State Board of Education, the only instance of such recognition having been given a colored man in this country; and his books without doubt have the widest sale of those of any colored author.<\/p>\n

He is a lawyer of keen and accurate judgement and seldom loses a case, having won every case he has had before the Supreme Court of his State, and in one instance a former member of the court was on the opposite side. \u00a0He is a business man and a liberal contributor to worthy charity. \u00a0His personal accumulations, according to the tax books, show a fortune of twenty five thousand dollars. \u00a0All this is the result of fifteen years of work, having come out of school without a penny, and is the most worthy object lesson to those young men who are ambitious and aspiring. \u00a0 If all our young men could catch hold at the right place and gradually climb as he has, the much discussed race problem would soon vanish. — Source: \u00a0“A Legal Light.” Colored American [Washington, DC] 8 Oct. 1904. Library of Congress Chronicling America. Web. <http:\/\/is.gd\/5qHoi<\/a>>.<\/p>\n

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