EDWARD A. JOHNSON 1860-1944

Politician, businessman, philanthropist, author, and educator. First black to publish a N.C. textbook. Home was here.

H-90Wake County

Where it stands. West Street at Lenoir Street in Raleigh

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Those damned sons of bitches thought they had me in a trap! I know that damned Douglass; he's just like any nigger, and he would sooner cut a white man's throat than not.

Andrew JohnsonAs quoted in Andrew Johnson: A Profile (1969), "Johnson and the Negro", by Lawanda Cox and John H. Cox; edited by Eric L. McKitrick, Hill & Wang, New York pp. 152-153.Born in Raleigh, 1 mi from here. Carolina Quotes record

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