White supremacists killed five people in a 1979 shootout in North Carolina. Mr. Johnson later led a commission that ...
Reverend Dr. Nelson Johnson will be laid to rest on Friday, Feb. 21. The NC A&T grad and civil rights leader died on Feb. 11.
A local nonprofit is mourning the loss of one of its founders Reverend Dr. Nelson Johnson. He was a Greensboro community ...
GREENSBORO, N.C. — Beloved Triad pastor Rev. Dr. Nelson Johnson has died. Originally from Halifax County, the North Carolina A&T alum is remembered for his efforts in the civil rights movement.
“He was also a lightning rod in Greensboro,” Gibson said. “That’s always been the case. It still is.” Nelson Johnson was born in Airlie, North Carolina, in 1943. He came of age in a society where ...
Rev. Nelson Johnson, the labor organizer turned pastor who was one of the most influential figures in North Carolina’s civil ...