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Harriet McBryde Johnson was born in eastern North Carolina, July 8, 1957, in Laurinburg, one of five children by David and Ada Johnson. Her parents were college teachers. [1] She was a feisty child: A quote from her sister said that "Harriet tried to get an abusive teacher fired; the start of her hell raising."
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
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
Nicholas wrote the song "Can We Pretend," which her then-husband Bill Withers recorded on his 1974 album +'Justments. [15] Nicholas later appeared as Harriet DeLong in the cast of NBC/CBS' In the Heat of the Night (1989–1995). Nicholas wrote six episodes of the series, thus beginning her second career as a writer. [16]
Around 1870 Johnson attended the National Convention of the Colored Men of America (NCCMA) in Washington, D.C. where she was the only female delegate. Her presence there caused a debate, with some members arguing that the organization was for men only and others arguing that excluding Johnson because she was a woman was similar to African ...
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."
Katherine MacGregor was born Dorlee Deane McGregor on January 12, 1925, in Glendale, California, to Ralph S. McGregor and Beatrice E. Willard. [2] When Katherine was a child, her mother Beatrice moved the family to Fort Collins, Colorado, where they lived most of Katherine's early life.
In 1978, Harriet Nelson moved full-time to the Laguna Beach, California, beach home the family had built in 1954. [13] She died of congestive heart failure on October 2, 1994. [2] She is interred with her husband and younger son Ricky (who died in a plane crash in 1985) in the Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Hollywood Hills in Los Angeles.