The HistoryMakers Video Oral History with Malvyn Johnson

  1. Resources
  2. View Resource

OralHistoryResource

The HistoryMakers Video Oral History with Malvyn Johnson

9/20/2005; 1/31/2006

https://www.thehistorymakers.org/biography/A2005.219

Media consultant and television and radio correspondent Malvyn Johnson (1924 - 2007 ) was the first female reporter for Cox Radio and Television News Bureau in Washington, D.C. and the second African American female White House correspondent. In 2000, Johnson founded Medialinx International, a media consulting firm. Johnson was interviewed by The HistoryMakers on 9/20/2005 and 1/31/2006, in Alexandria, Virginia. This collection is comprised of the video footage of the interview.

Total Sessions: 2; Total Tapes: 8; Total Run Time: 03h 37m 07s

The HistoryMakers

Information

SNAC Resource ID: 11635391

The HistoryMakers

Related Entities

There are 1 Entities related to this resource.

Johnson, Mal, 1924-

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w65j5cmd (person)

Journalist and civil rights activist Malvyn "Mal" Johnson was born July 4, 1924, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Johnson and her four siblings, Alice, Artie, Harvey and Norma, were primarily raised by their mother, Johnnie Reeves Taft, because their father left the family when Malvyn was still young; her mother would later remarry. Johnson attended Temple University, where she earned her B.A. degree while working to pay her own way through school as a riveter in the naval yards, among other jobs....