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	Record Group Number:	900000
	Series/Collection Number:	M82- 77
	Creator:	Johnson, Malcolm B.
	Title, Dates:	Tallahassee Democrat photographs, 1940-1974.
	Amount:	40 photographs
	Medium Included:	photographs
	Organization/Arrangement:	Unarranged.
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	Biographical/Historical:	Malcolm B. Johnson was the Executive Editor of the Tallahassee Democrat from 1954 to 1978, writing a daily column called "I Declare" and editorials. He was born in Wardner, Idaho, and his family homesteaded in Alberta, Canada, before moving to Jacksonville, Florida. Johnson received a degree in Journalism from the University of Florida in 1936. He worked for the Jacksonville Journal and the Daytona Beach Sun-Record before moving to Tallahassee in 1937. In Tallahassee, Johnson covered home-front stories during the Second World War. As Executive Editor of the Tallahassee Democrat, Johnson was part of the power elite of Tallahassee, allowing him the opportunity to gather city leaders in his office to determine policy. Some of the many policies to which Johnson contributed were transportation and the development of roads and airports, improving public services in the community, and economic development. However, typical of southern political leaders before the Civil Rights Movement, Johnson had a distaste for the movement towards integration and he criticized and belittled the movement when he could not avoid the topic. Johnson's columns and editorials lead him to establish organizations to improve living conditions in the city. He created the Funders Incorporated to raise money to send children from low-income families to camp. He also created the Upsy Daisy Plant Uplift Society that arranged with landowners to transplant landscape specimens from sites about to be leveled for new roads or other development, which saved thousands of native plants from the bulldozer's blade.
	Summary:	Photographs of various ceremonies, political events, and news-room activities document some of the projects and news stories that Malcom B. Johnson covered while an Associated Press (AP) reporter and editor for the Tallahassee Democrat. Images include Florida Governor Burns during his trip to Orlando to announce the opening of Disney World; Johnson at a University of Florida seminar on Freedom of Information; a news corps covering various World War Two stories; and reporters covering the eclipse of the sun in 1940. In addition, this collection contains autographed photographs of various Florida political figures, including Claude Pepper.
	Finding Aids:	Folder listing available. 0
	Additional Physical Form:	Images from this collection have been digitized and are available on the Florida memory web site: https://www.floridamemory.com/discover/photographs/
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	General Note:	Florida Photographic Collection Number P1982-77.
	Electronic Records Access:	https://www.floridamemory.com/discover/photographs/
	Subject Access Fields:	Johnson, Malcolm B. Tallahassee Democrat (Tallahassee, Fla. : Newspaper) Airports Florida Civil rights Florida Newspaper publishing Florida Race relations. Photographs. aat Tallahassee (Fla.)
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