The first Black mayor of North Carolina’s third largest city has died. Greensboro Mayor Nancy Vaughan announced that Yvonne Johnson died Wednesday at age 82. Johnson served on the city council for nearly 30 years in two stints, the last of which ended at her death. She was elected mayor in 2007 and served one term. Gov.
GREENSBORO , N.C. — A longtime Greensboro council member who also was the first Black mayor of North Carolina ’s third largest city has died.
“Our city lost one of its champions,” Vaughan said. A cause of death wasn’t provided, but Vaughan had said Tuesday that Johnson was absent from the council meeting that evening because of illness, the News & Record of GreensboroJohnson spent nearly 30 years on the council -- first from 1993 to 2009, of which the last two years she served as mayor following a 2007 election victory. She lost her mayoral reelection bid in 2009 but returned to the council in 2011, serving until her death.
Johnson was long involved in civil rights. She recalled in a 2023 interview with a publication of the North Carolina League of Municipalities about taking part in the 1963 March on Washington and in the sit-in movement while a student at Bennett College in Greensboro.
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