tctpod-season1-05: Before I was an African-American artist

In this podcast episode, I talk to Harold Johnson – poet, novelist, musician, artist, teacher, editor, and more. Harold is an African-American man who was born in 1930s Yakima, Washington and I really wanted to listen to him talk about growing up in this time and place. It is only one piece to the story of who he is, but a piece I definitely wanted to hear. So I hope you’ll join me on this journey into 1930s & 1940s rural Washington.

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Show outline:

  • 00m:00s - Introduction

  • 02m:59s - The first thing I remember

  • 06m:09s - Falling in love with the trumpet

  • 09m:42s - On being an athlete

  • 15m:15s - It was a big trip

  • 16m:26s - Johnson's got good form

  • 17m:52s - We have some new children and they're Negroes

  • 21m:59s - My first sports heroes were white

  • 24m:19s - The war

  • 26m:05s - Identified as an artist (mentors 1)

  • 32m:15s - Girls

  • 35m:36s - Buddies

  • 39m:14s - Jews from Brooklyn (mentors 2)

  • 44m:53s - A flair for writing

  • 47m:04s - College

  • 50m:27s - Growing up in the Pacific Northwest

  • 56m:48s - Harold as a poet

  • 1h:04m:19s - You look good! You look good!

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