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George E. Johnson, founder of pioneering Black hair products company, dead at 99
George E. Johnson, the pioneering Chicago entrepreneur whose eponymous company transformed Black hair care in the U.S. died on Monday at age 99.


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George E. Johnson, the pioneering Chicago entrepreneur whose eponymous company transformed Black hair care in the U.S. died on Monday at age 99.

George E. Johnson, who transformed Black hair care in the U.S., was born in a sharecropper's shack in Mississippi.
The Johnson Products Company was founded in 1954, catering to African Americans' evolving tastes in hairstyles and ​fashion, in an era when U.S. companies pa…

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