Johnson / Family Serving in the Military
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Interviewer: Did anyone in your family serve in World War II? Johnson: I had an uncle—not two—oh, my brother made a career of World War II? Interviewer: Your brother? He’s older? Johnson: No, he was younger. I’m the oldest, but he stayed in twenty-five, thirty years, twenty-something years. That was all he did. He made a career of it, but I don’t think any other close—I had an uncle in World War I. Basically, my brother. Interviewer: Just your brother. Johnson: I had considered it but here again, opportunities were limited. I didn’t make the grade that I wanted in order to make a career out of it, so I decided to come on back to school and go to teaching.
| Interview | Interview with James E. Johnson |
| Subjects | Family |
| Work › Occupations | |
| Historic Periods | |
| Historic Periods › Jim Crow Period | |
| Historic Periods › 1941-1945 | |
| Military › World War II | |
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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 | 00:01:12 |
| Citation | "Family Serving in the Military," 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/700/family-serving-in-the-military, accessed October 31, 2025 |
