Biography on yvonne johnson

EAST GREENSBORO, N.C. (Dec. 9, 2024) – A woman who grew up in the community around North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University, earned a master’s degree from A&T and became the first African American elected both to the Greensboro City Council and to the Greensboro mayorship has passed, and the Aggie family locally and nationwide are mourning her death.

Yvonne Jeffries Johnson ’78 died Wednesday, Dec.

4. Tributes have poured in over the past five days from scores of friends, including Congressional representatives, Guilford County and Greensboro officials and both North Carolina A&T and Bennett College, where she earned her bachelor’s degree.

She was 82.

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Johnson’s illustrious life touched innumerable parts of the community. The daughter of a minister and niece of the first African American to earn a doct