Description of content: Johnson recounts his experiences as a baseball player in the Negro Leagues and his youth and young adulthood in Little Rock, Arkansas, including memories of school integration and his niece, one of the Little Rock Nine. This oral history was collected as part of the African American Advisory Council.
Recording length: 2 hours, 45 minutes.
Physical Description: Interview available as digital file on SoundCloud.
Project description: Thanks to the generosity of the John W. Emery Family, in 2018 History Colorado hired an Assistant Curator of Oral History to manage all aspects of History Colorado’s oral history collections. In October of 2018, an initial survey of the 700 + recordings identified as oral histories began. The goal of the project includes adding the material to the Argus database and increasing its exposure and access.