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Gerald W. Johnson

Gerald W. Johnson joined the University of North Carolina faculty in 1924 as professor of journalism. He helped President Harry Woodburn Chase in a successful campaign against antievolution bills in the state legislature.

Source: NCpedia: Johnson, Gerald White

Also found in catalogs as Gerald W. (Gerald White) Johnson.

1890–1980 as the Library of Congress records it · On the Friends’ Local Authors roster → · Library of Congress authority record ↗

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Gerald W. Johnson, 1954
Gerald W. Johnson, 1954

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Norval Neil Luxon papers, circa 1930-1989.

Luxon, Norval Neil, 1899-1989 · 1930

Norval Neil Luxon (1899-1989) was a faculty member at Chapel Hill and Ohio State University, and his papers, circa 1930 to 1989, run to about 12,800 items in 15.5 linear feet in the Southern Historical Collection at UNC, collection 4585. Journalists fill the subject list, among them James Reston, Vermont Royster, Clifton Daniel, Gerald W. Johnson, Sam Ragan and Holt McPherson, with William C. Friday and Gail Godwin also named.

Why this is here: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Johnson, Gerald W. (Gerald White), 1890-1980.

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  1. Gerald W. Johnson heads the university's newly independent journalism department After Louis Graves left in 1924, the university expanded journalism into an independent department with Johnson, an editorial writer, at its head. He left for the Baltimore Evening Sun in 1926. People: Louis GravesSearch the index · Carolina Story: Gerald W. Johnson (1890-1980)

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Picture: Gerald W. Johnson, 1954. Public domain. babel.hathitrust.org; via Wikimedia Commons

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