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Cosmetics. Revenue. US$90 million (c. 2013) [2][3] Website. johnsonpublishing.com. Johnson Publishing Company, Inc. (JPC) was an American publishing company founded in November 1942 by African-American businessman John H. Johnson. It was headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. JPC was privately held and run by Johnson until his death in 2005.
The first issue of Jet was published on November 1, 1951, by John H. Johnson in Chicago, Illinois. [7] Johnson called his magazine Jet because he wanted the name to symbolize " Black and speed ". In Jet ' s first issue, Johnson wrote, "In the world today everything is moving along at a faster clip.
In 1942 he started his first magazine, Negro Digest, with a $500 loan. He went on to launch Ebony in 1945, followed by Jet in 1951. Over the ensuing decades, Johnson built the world’s largest Black-owned publishing company.
Aug 16, 2005 · CHICAGO, Aug. 15 - John H. Johnson, the pioneering black publisher who founded Ebony and Jet magazines, was remembered on Monday as a man who left "an imprint on the conscience of a nation"...
Nov 17, 2010 · Just this week, the company founded by John H. Johnson and his wife Eunice announced that it had sold its Michigan Avenue building – which had been its home since 1972 – to Columbia College Chicago.
Aug 3, 2022 · At a time when mainstream media and pop culture focused on white audiences, the two publications, published by the Chicago-based Johnson Publishing Company starting in the 1940s and ’50s, offered...
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Sep 6, 2019 · Priceless collections of photographs and other documents of twentieth- and twenty-first-century Black life were to be sold to satisfy creditors in the Johnson Publishing Company bankruptcy case.
