Johnson / Higher Education
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Interviewer: So, in what year did you graduate from high school? Johnson: Nineteen forty-four. Interviewer: Nineteen forty-four. So that’s right in the middle of the war? Johnson: Yeah, three years into the war. Interviewer: Did you serve in the military at all? Johnson: Three years. Interviewer: Three years. Was it right after you graduated? Johnson: No, I came here to Prairie View. I guess I was, oh, sophomore. They wouldn’t give me a deferment, so I was drafted. I went in service in 1946 and spent nearly two years here. I was about up a sophomore when I went in service. I spent three years and came back and graduated from here in 1950. Interviewer: From Prairie View in 1950? Johnson: From Prairie View, yes.
| Interview | Interview with James E. Johnson |
| Subjects | Education › All-Black Education |
| Education › Higher Education | |
| Historic Periods › Jim Crow Period | |
| Historic Periods › 1941-1945 | |
| Historic Periods › 1946-1950 | |
| Military › World War II | |
| Military › Military Draft | |
| Tags | Prairie View A&M University |
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| Interview date | 2015-07-21 |
| Interview source | CRBB Summer 2015 |
| Interviewees | Johnson, James E. |
| Interviewers | Acuña-Gurrola, Moisés |
| Bynum, Katherine | |
| Duration | 00:01:11 |
| Citation | "Higher Education," from James E. Johnson oral history interview with Moisés Acuña-Gurrola and Katherine Bynum, July 21, 2015, Prairie View, TX , Civil Rights in Black and Brown Interview Database, https://crbb.tcu.edu/clips/694/higher-education, accessed April 17, 2024 |
