Johnson / Marriage
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Interviewer: I’m sorry. I forgot to ask. When did you get married? Johnson: Nineteen fifty-one. Interviewer: Nineteen fifty-one? So right after you graduated from Prairie View? Johnson: Yeah. Interviewer: What is your wife’s name? Johnson: Katie F. Katie Frances. Interviewer: How did you guys meet? Johnson: In school. I—it was on Saturday and I think they were having a football game and she was up on the second floor of the education building and I looked up there and saw here. I had not seen her before. I introduced myself and from there on started haggling. We celebrated our sixty-fourth wedding anniversary the other day, other week, month. Interviewer: Last week? Johnson: No, it was March. Interviewer: Oh, okay. In March. Johnson: Married March—Sunday, 1951, March 25th. It was an Easter Sunday. This was rare that Easter would fall on that, but it was Easter Sunday in 1951 when we married. Interviewer: It was an Easter Sunday again for your anniversary? Johnson: No, but it has been a time or two in that interim. It occurred a time or two.
| Interview | Interview with James E. Johnson |
| Subjects | Family › Courtship |
| Family › Marriage | |
| Family › Children | |
| Education › Higher Education | |
| 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 | |
| Locations | Prairie View, TX |
| Duration | 00:01:53 |
| Citation | "Marriage ," 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/718/marriage, accessed October 31, 2025 |
