Hidden Bibliographic Details
| Varying Form of Title: | History Makers video oral history with Colonel Stone Johnson
Colonel Stone Johnson
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| Other authors / contributors: | Johnson, Colonel Stone, 1918- interviewee.
Gines, Denise, interviewer.
Stearns, Scott, director of photography.
HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.
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| Sound characteristics: | digital
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| Digital file characteristics: | video file
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| Notes: | Videographer, Scott Stearns.
Denise Gines, interviewer.
Recorded Birmingham, Alabama 2007 March 23.
Vendor-supplied metadata.
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| Summary: | Civil rights activist and railroad worker Colonel Stone Johnson was born on September 9, 1918 in Hayesville, Alabama. He worked for L & M Railroad Company for thirty-nine years and became the first African American union representative working to equalize conditions for African American employees. Johnson met Reverend Fred L. Shuttlesworth and became involved in the Civil Rights Movement after civil rights leaders formed the Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights (ACMHR) in 1956. After the bombing in 1958 of Bethel Baptist Church and the parsonage where Shuttlesworth resided, Johnson was part of a security detail for ACMHR that worked to protect black leaders from Ku Klux Klan attacks. Johnson testified against J.B. Stoner, chairman of the political arm of the Ku Klux Klan, during Stoner's trial in 1977 where he was found guilty of conspiring to bomb Bethel Baptist Church in 1955. Johnson passed away on January 19, 2012 at age 93.
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