BY WALTER OPINDE Mordecai Wyatt Johnson was an African American educator, clergyman, administrator, and public speaker, who was born on 4th January, 1891, in Paris, Tennessee. He was the son of Reverend Wyatt J. Johnson, a former slave. Johnson learned through his parents’ example the muscle of self-determination, discipline, scholarship, and integrity. His father, a […]
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