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Guion Griffis Johnson

Guion Griffis Johnson worked at UNC’s Institute for Research in Social Science from 1924 and held a string of Chapel Hill civic posts: PTA president in 1937–1938, wartime rationing, civil defense and war-records work for Orange County, and president of the Chapel Hill Council of Churches in 1950. She wrote Ante-Bellum North Carolina (1937).

Source: UNC Libraries: Guion Griffis Johnson Papers, 1838-1987 (finding aid)

1900–1989 as the Library of Congress records it · On the Friends’ Local Authors roster → · Library of Congress authority record ↗

4 indexed works are connected with this person, and the index includes 3 works by Guion Griffis Johnson.

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Oral history interview with Guion Griffis Johnson, August 19, 1974: interview G-0029-1, Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)

Johnson, Guion Griffis · 2006 · University Library, UNC-Chapel Hill

Guion Griffis Johnson (1900-1989), a historian of the antebellum South, talked with Jacquelyn Hall and Mary Frederickson in August 1974 for the Southern Oral History Program. She recalls her training, her years at the Institute for Research in Social Science at the University of North Carolina, the standing of women historians in higher education, and the research behind her study of antebellum North Carolina society. Running about an hour; electronic edition issued by the UNC library in 2006 through Documenting the American South.

Oral history interview with Guion Griffis Johnson, May 28, 1974 interview G-0029-3, Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007).

Johnson, Guion Griffis · 2006 · University Library, UNC-Chapel Hill

Third of four Southern Oral History Program interviews with sociologist Guion Griffis Johnson (1900-1989), recorded May 28, 1974 by Mary Frederickson and running just over two hours. Johnson talks about her Chapel Hill education in the 1920s and her research at Howard Odum's social science institute at UNC, also discussing Gunnar Myrdal, studies of race discrimination, and women in Southern higher education. Issued online by the UNC Library in 2006 through Documenting the American South.

Guion Griffis Johnson papers, 1873-1987.

Johnson, Guion Griffis, 1900-1989 · 1873

Papers of the historian Guion Griffis Johnson (1900-1989) spanning 1873 to 1987, about 32,600 items in 70.5 linear feet, part of the Southern Historical Collection at UNC, collection 4546. Topics include women's clubs and church women's work, the North Carolina Federation of Women's Clubs, Church Women United, civil rights and school integration in the twentieth century, and they also name Guy Benton Johnson.

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A history of Epsilon Beta Chapter of Chi Omega at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, North Carolina, 1923-1999.

Clark, Blanche (Blanche R.) · 1999 · Epsilon Beta of Chi Omega House Corp.?

Chapter history of Epsilon Beta of Chi Omega at the University of North Carolina, covering 1923 to 1999 and written by Blanche Clark with Ann Thornburgh. Twenty nine unnumbered leaves with illustrations and a portrait, issued in Chapel Hill in 1999. Guion Griffis Johnson is among the people discussed.

Why this is here: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Johnson, Guion Griffis, 1900-1989.

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  • Influential in its time · NC 975.6 JOH Ante-bellum North Carolina: A Social History Johnson, Guion Griffis · 1937

    Guion Griffis Johnson's social history of North Carolina in the decades before the Civil War. Twenty-six chapters run from colonial origins, social classes and rural and town life through courtship and family, schools and colleges, churches and camp meetings, the slave system and the lives of enslaved people, free Black residents, courts and crime, care of the needy, public health, newspapers and the state's intellectual awakening. University of North Carolina Press, 1937; 935 pages.

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  1. Guy B. Johnson begins work at the Institute for Research in Social Science Guy B. Johnson and his wife Guion Griffis Johnson began working at UNC's new Institute for Research in Social Science in 1924. He was one of its original research assistants. People: Guion Griffis JohnsonSearch the index · History on the Hill (UNC Libraries): Creator of the Month, Guion Griffis Johnson
  2. Guion Griffis Johnson serves as president of the Chapel Hill PTA Guion Griffis Johnson was president of the Chapel Hill PTA in 1937–1938 and a district PTA officer the following year.Search the index · UNC Libraries: Guion Griffis Johnson Papers, 1838-1987 (finding aid)
  3. Guion Griffis Johnson leads home-front work in Chapel Hill and Orange County During World War II Johnson chaired the Community Service Committee of the Chapel Hill War Price and Rationing Board, was public relations officer for the Orange County Office of Civil Defense, and collected war records for Orange County.Search the index · UNC Libraries: Guion Griffis Johnson Papers, 1838-1987 (finding aid)
  4. Guion Griffis Johnson lectures in the Navy V-12 program at the University Johnson taught as a lecturer in the Naval V-12 program at the University of North Carolina in 1943–1944.Search the index · UNC Libraries: Guion Griffis Johnson Papers, 1838-1987 (finding aid)
  5. Guion Griffis Johnson is president of the Chapel Hill Council of Churches After returning to Chapel Hill from Atlanta in 1947, Johnson served on the boards of the Chapel Hill Community Council and Community Club, and in 1950 she was president of the Chapel Hill Council of Churches.Search the index · UNC Libraries: Guion Griffis Johnson Papers, 1838-1987 (finding aid)

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