Caption: JOHN JOHNSON speaks with Billy Roberts, left and Rober Deane, both Renaissane High School students. Black and poor, John Johnson just knew success was on the other side of all these parriess before him. Johnson recalled starting his first magazine, Negro Digest, with $500 raised by selling his mother's furniture to come up with the money -- Johnson started climbing ladders. The Chairman and chief executive officer of Johnson Publishing Co, Inc., publisher of Ebony, jet and Ebony Man magazines, described his climb Monday to about 900 people at the Economic Club of Detroit meeting at Cobo Hall.
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