“Vanderbilt Picks 1st Black Trustee”

“Vanderbilt Picks 1st Black Trustee”
Tupelo Daily Journal December 1971
RG 910 News and Public Affairs
Vanderbilt University Archives

In the same year that his seminal book was completed, Johnson accepted a historic invitation to serve on the board of trustees of Vanderbilt University. He would become the de facto ambassador for Blacks at Vanderbilt, often with mixed reception.