Beacons of Light: The Education of the Afro-Texan
Johnson
The
Texas Outlook - Page 39A Houston educator for 49 years, Johnson was a former president of the
Teachers
State Association of Texas. He also was the first prints. ...
Educator W.L.D. Johnson, Sr., led a drive in 1910 to raise funds for the purchase of land for Houston's Colored Carnegie Library; he was one of the original board members for that library. Johnson was appointed principal of Blackshear Elementary School in 1918 and continued in that position for more than forty years.
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