White supremacists killed five people in a 1979 shootout in North Carolina. Mr. Johnson later led a commission that ...

Reverend Dr. Nelson Johnson will be laid to rest on Friday, Feb. 21. The NC A&T grad and civil rights leader died on Feb. 11.

Nelson Johnson and I had lots of spirited debates over the years, especially about the 88 seconds on Nov. 3, 1979, that came to define and haunt him. But I ...

A local nonprofit is mourning the loss of one of its founders Reverend Dr. Nelson Johnson. He was a Greensboro community ...

GREENSBORO — One of the most talked about community leaders in Greensboro over the decades has died. The Rev. Nelson Johnson, an organizer of the protest targeted in the Klan-Nazi shootings and ...

Once called “the most dangerous man in Greensboro,” the late Nelson Johnson survived the Greensboro Massacre to do work that won respect and inspired generations. When Rev. Nelson Johnson died Monday ...

Rev. Nelson Johnson, the labor organizer turned pastor who was one of the most influential figures in North Carolina’s civil ...