CHICAGO – Eunice W. Johnson gave Ebony magazine its name and for almost 50 years produced an influential traveling fashion show that brought haute couture to African-Americans while raising millions of dollars for charity.
The widow of Johnson Publishing Co. founder John H. Johnson, Johnson, 93, died of kidney failure on Sunday at her Chicago home, according to a company spokeswoman.
A close business partner of her husband ‘s since the beginning of Johnson Publishing in 1942, Johnson remained the company’s secretary-treasurer after her husband ‘s death in 2005.
Johnson Publishing’s flagship, conceived as an African-American version of Life and publi
