Background
Johnson, Howard Eugene was born on January 30, 1915 in Orange, New Jersey, United States.
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Howard Eugene Johnson
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Bachelor of Science in Comparative Literature, Columbia University, 1966; Master of Arts in Sociology, New York University, 1977; postgraduate, State University of New York, Binghamton, since 1989; HHD (honorary), Honolulu U., 1990.
Career
Documentation specialist psychiatric epidemiological research unit, Columbia University College Physicians and Surgeons, 1966-1967;
field supervisor social science research unit, Columbia University College Physicians and Surgeons, 1968-1969;
assistant to director ethical culture schools, project director, Fieldston School, 1969-1971;
assistant professor department black studies, State University of New York, New Paltz, 1971-1974;
adjunct associate professor department sociology, State University of New York, New Paltz, 1975-1982. Technical advisor to Francis Ford Coppola film The Cotton Club, 1983. Visiting lecturer ethnic studies program U. Hawaii, 1986-1989.
Visiting professor Rice U., Houston.
Achievements
Membership
Chairman Strand Cmty. Organisation to Rehabilitation the Environment, Kingston, New York, 1978-1982. Founder, chairman Hudson Valley Minority Regional Congress, 1979-1982.
1st vice chairman Hudson Valley Economics Development District, 1981-1982. Founder, co-chairman of Afro-American Leadership Conference, Hawaii, 1988. Vice president St. Croix Cmty.
Crime Committee; vice chairman Martin Luther King Junior Commission, Hawaii. Member Association for the Study of Afro-American Life and History (life), Military Order of the Purple Heart (life), American Field Svc. Committee, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (life), SAG.
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Connections
Son of Howard MacPherson and Gertrude Parker (McGinnis) J. (divorced January 1989). Children: Wendy Kay, Wini Lorie, Lisa Alin.
