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Harriet McBryde Johnson (July 8, 1957 – June 4, 2008 [1]) was an American author, attorney, and disability rights activist. She was disabled due to a neuromuscular disease and used a motorized wheelchair .
Harriet Johnson may refer to: Harriet C. Johnson (1845–1907), African-American suffragist and educator Harriet McBryde Johnson (1957–2008), American author, attorney, and disability rights activist
Harriet C. Johnson (1845-1907) was an African-American suffragist and educator. Life. Johnson was born in December 1845 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. [1]
Harriet Merrill Johnson (1867 – February 21, 1934) was an American educator. Life. She was born in 1867 in Bangor, Maine. [1] She graduated from the Massachusetts ...
Finlay-Johnson was born in Hampstead in 1871. Her parents were Thomas Connolly and Jane (born FitzPatrick) Johnson. Harriet and her sister Emily both became teachers. [1] She qualified in 1892 after working for eight years at St Mary's School, Willesden. [1] The "Coronation of William and Mary" by the children using net curtains for costumes
Iola Leroy, or Shadows Uplifted, an 1892 novel by Frances E. W. Harper, is one of the first novels published by an African-American woman. While following what has been termed the "sentimental" conventions of late nineteenth-century writing about women, it also deals with serious social issues of education for women, passing, miscegenation, abolition, reconstruction, temperance, and social ...
She had a recurring role in the 1960s NBC sitcom Hazel as Harriet Johnson. [8] She appeared on CBS's I Love Lucy as Mrs. Benson, the neighbour with whom the Ricardos switch apartments after the birth of Little Ricky in 1953. [9] In 1957, she guest-starred as Mrs. Weddington-Brown in Mr. Adams and Eve episode "The Social Crowd."
Stephen and his wife Harriet provided safe houses for freedom seekers and supplied them with financial support through the Vigilance Committee.He also organized the Florence Farming and Lumber Association, an economic development project, and was the vice president of the American Council of Colored Laborers, a trade and skills organization.