All posts by Eva Johnson

Eva Johnson served as both a special education & international education instructor/consultant. She supervised staff, coordinated teams, and developed alternative programs. Her community leadership included: Urban League of Greater New Haven, Connecticut Afro American Historical Society, African American Women's Summit, I have a Dream Mentoring, Big Brother/Big Sister, Girl Scouts Diversity Board, Victim Offender Reconciliation Program, NAACP, Hamilton County Board of Education IZON Program. Her many awards include: Pioneer Woman Award-Chattanooga’s National Council of Negro Women and Excellence in Teaching Award- National Council of Negro Women.
Authors I-Q, Social Issues

African American History Month – by Eva Jo (Saddler) Johnson

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African American History (AAH) Celebrations for decades have been designated to the month of February, mostly. I remember when invited the very few African American Educators’ staff members and our high school’s English Department Chairperson this was two years after I was hired in the state of Connecticut and after my college graduation. 

We staff members were well aware that no knowledge or acknowledgement of African American History lessons were being incorporated or extra-curriculum programs into our school’s educational classroom goals and activities.

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Authors I-Q, Of Women, Race & Ethnicity

I’m Black and I’m Proud – by Eva Johnson

Eva Johnson and John Lewis
Eva Johnson and John Lewis

I attended 12 public schools in Chattanooga during times when almost everything was racially separated: schools, churches, restaurants, tours,  organization memberships.  After my high school  graduation and an  early marriage, I relocated  with family to New England and eventually graduated from  Southern Connecticut University.  In the mid-seventies when I became an educator in a large suburban high school in Hamden, Connecticut, only about 10% of the school’s staff and student body was African American.

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