Eunice W. Johnson
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Eunice Walker Johnson (April 4, 1916 – January 3, 2010) was an American businesswoman.
Johnson was the widow of publisher John H. Johnson and an executive at Johnson Publishing Company.
Johnson was best known as the founder and director of the Ebony Fashion Fair, which began in 1958 as a hospital fund raising and developed into an annual worldwide fashion tour that showcased African-American women, which was not available until a year before her death.
Early life and education
Eunice Walker was born in Selma, Alabama, on April 4, 1916, to Nathaniel Walker, a surgeon, and Ethel Walker, a high school principal. She was one of four children. In 1938, she received a bachelor's degree in sociology from Talladega College. Johnson debuted Delta Sigma Theta in college. Johnson met her future husband, John H. Johnson, in 1940 while attending Loyola University Chicago and was married after she earned her master's degree the following year.
Career
She founded The Negro Digest, a magazine modeled after Reader's Digest, alongside her husband. The brisk success of their first magazine inspired them to produce Ebony, a monthly magazine that is based on Life and its boldly photographed front cover. Johnson was the one who suggested that the magazine be named for the dark woods. By the time of her death, Ebony had a 1.25 million fanbase and its weekly companion Jet had a circulation of 900,000. She had a great influence on a lot of African Americans.
In 1958 for a hospital in New Orleans, Johnson began the Ebony Fashion Tour (which later became known as Ebony Fashion Fair). The tour visited 200 cities around the United States, Canada, and the Caribbean, raising over $50 million for charity in its half-century of existence. The fashion tour was a pioneer in using African-American models on the runway and helped to showcase African-American designers' work on the runway and helped promote the African-American designers' work. Johnson founded Fashion Fair Cosmetics in 1973 as a line of makeup that would be available in top department stores, based on her struggles in finding cosmetics suitable to her models' skin tones.