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Negro Digest offices, State Street
Ebony magazine, 1992
Ebony magazine, 1992
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A fun find here from the early 1960s. As part of the United States Information Agency's "Personal Report" series, Michael Kubeyinje, a student in Washington, D.C., conducted a report on Johnson Publishing Company. "Personal Report" was inaugurated by the U.S.I.A to familiarize Nigerian audiences with aspects of American culture - one small part of America's Cold War cultural and educational projects on the African continent. Kubeyinje's report offers some rare and valuable footage of the interiors of Johnson Publishing's offices in both Washington, D.C. and its main headquarters in Chicago. We also get to meet some prominent JPC staffers, including Simeon Booker, Era Bell Thompson, Herbert Nipson, and Lerone Bennett Jr. |