title: Some Of History's Missing Pages
author: James Johnson
description: James Monroe Johnson, author of two books of poems: Just To Spend A Little Time With You: A Lifetime of Writing Poetry, published in 2003 and From My Heart To Yours, published in 2004, and a Christian anthology: The Banner Mission, By Larry Mays, also published in 2004, has now put all of his historical writings, research and term papers from college and his years of writing experiences for newspapers and magazines, both college and professionally into a book of history.Johnson, a Mississippi native, was born in Phillip, Tallahatchie County, in February, 1943. Being the twelfth child and sixth boy of a large cotton-farming family, he was on the tail-end of a cotton-picking era that many Black families found themselves during the 1940''s. During the summer of his first year, his family moved back to the hills of Mississippi from whence they had come. He attended elementary school at an old two-room schoolhouse that belonged to the Methodist Church of Dumas Chapel at Bellefontaine in Webster County. In 1957, he began riding the bus to Eupora and finished high school at Webster County Training High in 1961. Enrolling in college at Okolona, a junior college, on a scholastic scholarship, he completed his two years and earned an Associate of Arts Degree in General Education in June 1963.Being promised a scholarship to St. Augustine''s College in Raleigh, North Carolina, Johnson went to Raleigh by train, but couldn't locate the dean who had promised him the scholarship, so he traveled onto Washington, D.C., where he his nephew Jesse James Mhoon lived. Getting a job to afford a train trip back home, he worked for Friend Rent-A-Car from September to Christmas, then he married his girlfriend from Grenada County and got news from home that his sister Margaret had been killed, so he and his new bride boarded a bus to Mississippi. After his sister's funeral, he and his wife alternated between his mother and her mother (by this time, both his father and his wife's father were dec
zlib_text: WILLIAM HENRY JACKSON AND HIS CONTRIBUTION 
  TO THE HISTORY OF THE EARLY WEST
  A T hesis 
  P re sen te d  t o  
  th e Department of H is to ry  
  U n i v e r s i t y  of S outhern C a lif o r n i a
  I n  P a r t i a l  F u l f i l l m e n t  
  of the Requirem ents f o r  th e  Degree 
  M aster of A rts
  by
  Ralph L incoln R ozelle 
  June 1951
  
  UMI Number: EP59633
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