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Image of a sketch of William Decker Johnson. In the late 1920s William Decker Johnson, the bishop of five midwestern states in the African American Methodist Episcopal Church, founded the Johnson Home Industrial School as a private African American college, which later became a grammar and high school in Webster County.
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  1. African American Bishops
  2. African American Clergy
  3. African American Men
  4. African American Methodists
  5. African Americans
  6. Bishops
  7. Clergy
  8. Georgia
  9. Johnson, W. D. (William Decker), B. 1860
  10. Men
  11. Webster County

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