Background
Johnson, Robert Allison was born on September 8, 1928 in Canandaigua, New York, United States. Son of Allison Fisher and Thelma Marie (Beers) Johnson.
(Often called the Second Civil War, Reconstruction was a p...)
Often called the Second Civil War, Reconstruction was a painful period of civil unrest, violence, and bloodshed. At the center were the agents of the Freedmen's Bureau, Northerners dedicated to the education and uplifting of former slaves. This Violent Land tells the story of South Carolina Freedmen's Bureau agent Major William Stone, a Civil War veteran struggling to uphold new civil rights legislation for freed slaves amidst pressures for a return to the antebellum South. Many, including the Ku Klux Klan, are determined to keep blacks from voting or educating their children. Quaker teacher Mary Taylor is equally determined to teach black children and to marry William Stone, while also shaping his political future. Johnson's story is based on William Stone's Civil War and Freedmen's Bureau journals, possessed by the family of Robert Johnson's wife, Suzanne, herself a descendant of Stone. Johnson weaves together these journals with other exhaustive research and his own narrative fiction, inferring and adding what might have happened, to create a vivid, colorful drama about people trying to carry on during those violent years. Many of the themes in this story are familiar in our world today disputed elections, military-enforced democracy, local violence, and social instability. Though the setting is over a hundred years old, This Violent Land is more timely than it might at first appear.
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life insurance company executive
Johnson, Robert Allison was born on September 8, 1928 in Canandaigua, New York, United States. Son of Allison Fisher and Thelma Marie (Beers) Johnson.
Bachelor of Arts History, Harvard University, 1950; Master of Business Administration, Western New England College, 1963.
With, Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company, Springfield, since 1951; employment manager, Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company, 1958-1972; director personnel, Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company, 1972-1976; senior vice president, Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company, since 1976.
(Often called the Second Civil War, Reconstruction was a p...)
Active American Red Cross. Served with United States Army, 1951-1953. Member Life Office Management Association, American Society California Lutheran Universities.
Married Suzanne Amundsen Stone, December 18, 1951. Children— Pamela Suzanne, Carol Alison, Elizabeth Stone, Cynthia Marie.