Bert Johnson oral history interview

1979-11-12

Johnson, Bert; Dove, Kay

Oral history interview with Bert Johnson conducted by Kay Dove on November 12, 1979. Bert Johnson was born in Lillington, North Carolina in 1909 and lived there through college at the University of North Carolina. He was asked by the War Department in 1948 to go to Japan to help the Japanese School Board with co-ed schooling after the war. In the 4 months he was in Japan, Johnson created a manual to help calm to opposition to co-ed reform. After his time in Japan, he returned to the United States where he continued to teach secondary education.

University of Maryland (College Park, Md.)

Oral histories

Japan--History--Allied occupation, 1945-1952

Japan; New Jersey; Cary

Postwar Japan

Special Collections and University Archives

English

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Recording: 01:09:00 (audiocassette; mp3); Transcript: 30 pages (PDF)

This oral history interview is part of the Marlene J. Mayo oral histories. A guide to the full collection of Marlene J. Mayo oral histories is available in our archival collections: http://hdl.handle.net/1903.1/42478.
Accession 2009-209-GWP
An interview transcript is available.

Filename: prange-087554