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Guy Benton Johnson was one of the original research assistants at UNC's Institute for Research in Social Science and joined the university's faculty in 1927, becoming Kenan professor of anthropology and sociology in 1963 and retiring in 1969. His research covered African American folk song, the Gullah culture of Saint Helena Island and race relations in the South.
Source: UNC Libraries: Guy Benton Johnson Papers, 1830-1882, 1901-1987 (finding aid)
1901–1991 as the Library of Congress records it · Library of Congress authority record ↗
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Guy Benton Johnson's history of the first fifty years of the Institute for Research in Social Science at the University of North Carolina, founded by Howard Odum in 1924, published by the University of North Carolina Press in 1980. Johnson was himself among the institute's early researchers. xv and 442 pages with a bibliography.
Reviewed in The Journal of Southern History (1981), Social Forces (1981), Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews (1982).
Transcript of an oral history interview with the sociologist Guy Benton Johnson, recorded on July 22, 1990 and issued in 2006. Subjects include Howard Washington Odum, Frank Porter Graham, the Southern Regional Council and segregation in the South, subjects that run through Johnson's working life at Chapel Hill.
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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