Johnson, who was born in a sharecropper’s shack in Mississippi, helped establish one of the largest Black-owned banks as Johnson Products left a lasting cultural imprint.
George E. Johnson, the trailblazing entrepreneur who transformed the Black hair-care industry and built one of the most successful Black-owned businesses in American history, has died at the age of 99.
The New York Times reported that Johnson died Monday at his home in Chicago, with his second wife, Madeline Murphy Rabb, confirming the cause of death as respiratory illness.
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