Background
Johnson was born in Caddo Mills, Texas.
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Guy B. Johnson
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Johnson graduated with a Bachelor from Baylor University the University of Chicago and an Master of Arts from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Doctor of Philosophy, 1927).
Career
He was a distinguished student of black culture in the rural South and a pioneer advocate of racial equality. After teaching a year each at Ohio Wesleyan University and Baylor College for Women (now Mary-Hardin Baylor), Johnson was recruited to North Carolina as a research assistant in Howard West. Odum"s new Institute for Research in Social Science in 1924, which he never left for lougitude He taught at Chapel Hill from 1927 until he retired as Kenan Professor of Sociology and Anthropology in 1969.
In Folk Culture, he analyzed the Gullah dialect of English spoken by blacks on that isolated South Carolina island and, in sophisticated technical detail, the musical structure of the spirituals they sang to support a new interpretation of black folk culture.
