funeral and legacy On August 8, 2005, Johnson died of congestive heart failure. At the time of his death, Johnson was survived by his wife, daughter Linda Johnson-Rice and a granddaughter. His son, John Jr. died in December 1981 after a long battle with an illness related to sickle cell at age 25. Following his death, a public viewing of his body was held at Johnson Publishing Headquarters on August 16, 2005. Johnson's funeral was held at University of Chicago's Rockefeller Memorial Chapel where an estimated 3,000 people attended, including former U.S. president Bill Clinton, future U.S. president Barack Obama, and civil rights leader Jesse Jackson. Johnson was buried at Oak Woods Cemetery, in the Greater Grand Crossing neighborhood in Chicago. In 2010, the Noble Network of Charter Schools and Chicago Public Schools opened Johnson College Prep High School, a public charter high school in Chicago Illinois' Englewood neighborhood in honor of Johnson and his wife Eunice. On January 31, 2012, the United States Postal Service honored John H. Johnson with a commemorative stamp as the newest addition to its Black Heritage Series. The School of Communications at Howard University was to be named in his honor but instead, the $4 million donation was used to endow a chair in entrepreneurship. Johnson was inducted into the Chicago Literary Hall of Fame in 2013. In 2019, the Arkansas Legislature created John H. Johnson Day to pay tribute to his legacy and to help support a museum (his childhood home) named in his honor in Arkansas City. The Friends of the John H. Johnson Museum suggested November 1 as the date for the holiday because that was the date the first issue of Ebony was published. See also African-American business history References Further reading Johnson, John H. Succeeding Against the Odds: The Autobiography of a Great American Businessman (1989). Who's Who in Colored America, 1950, pp. 305–306. Chicago Defender, January 6, 1962, p. A15. External links Biography at the Johnson Publishing Company John H. Johnson memorial service program) at the Johnson Publishing Company John H. Johnson's oral history video excerpts at the National Visionary Leadership Project Find A Grave 1918 births 2005 deaths 20th-century American journalists American male journalists African-American businesspeople African-American journalists African-American publishers (people) American magazine founders American publishers (people) Businesspeople from Arkansas Businesspeople from Chicago Johnson Publishing Company John Harold Northwestern University alumni People from Arkansas City, Arkansas Presidential