Today, people will gather at Bennett College for a Celebration of Life for Mayor Pro-Tem Yvonne Johnson. Johnson was known as ...

White horses carried the casket of former Greensboro Mayor Yvonne Johnson to her beloved Bennett College for a final time ...

That same day, a parade beginning at 11 a.m. will take place at the corner of Beech and Dudley streets to the Bennett College Chapel on East Washington Street in Greensboro. "This seems a fitting ...

As Greensboro’s first Black mayor and founder ... Yvonne’s unwavering love for Bennett College was evident in the way she championed its mission and inspired future generations of Belles ...

For example, students at Bennett College in Greensboro, one of two all-female HBCUs in the country, protested a local movie theater in the late 1930s because it would edit Black people out of films.

at 11 a.m., Johnson will be transported by a horse-drawn carriage to her funeral service at Bennett College Chapel, located at 900 East Washington Street in Greensboro. “She had very specific ...

Yvonne Johnson, the First Black Mayor of North Carolina's Third-Largest City, Has Died GREENSBORO ... in the sit-in movement while a student at Bennett College in Greensboro.

Brown Funeral Home in Greensboro. The funeral service will be on Saturday morning, starting with Johnson's body being transported by horse-drawn carriage to Bennett College Chapel on Washington ...