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Johnson, Sonia (1936)

 Person

Dates

  • Existence: 1936

Biography

Sonia Johnson (born 1936) is a feminist, activist, and writer.

Sonia Johnson was born in 1936 in Malad City, Idaho and grew up in Cache Valley, Utah. She married Richard Johnson in 1960. Sonia graduated from Utah State University and with an M.A. and received a PhD from Rutgers University. In 1977, she organized the Mormons for the ERA movement.

Citation:
From housewife to heretic, 1981:t.p. (Sonia Johnson) pub. info. sheet (co-founder Mormons for ERA movement

From housewife to heretic, c1989:CIP t.p. (Sonia Johnson) galley (b. 1936, Idaho; grad. Utah State U; M.A. Rutgers; Ed.D.; lives in Sterling, Va.)

Journal of Mormon history, vol. 40, no. 4, 2014:page 208 (Sonia Harris Johnson; Sonia Johnson; in article entitled, Sonia's awakening; grew up in Cache Valley; daughter of an LDS seminary teacher; married Richard Johnson in 1960) page 231 (Sonia received PhD from Rutgers; moved to Lagos, Nigeria in December 1966 with her husband) page 235 (returned to the United States in 1967 and settled in Palo Alto, California) page 239 (in 1977 living in Virginia) page 240 (Sonia Johnson organized Mormons for the ERA in 1977) found: Wikipedia, website viewed October 21, 2014(Sonia Johnson; born Sonia Ann Harris Feb 27, 1936 in Malad, Idaho; American feminist activist and writer; outspoken supporter of the Equal Rights Amendment; excommunicated from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints; attended Utah State University and married Rick Johnson following graduation; Master's and Doctor of Education, Rutgers College; part-time teacher in English in universities in the United States and abroad; resides in New Mexico)

Found in 1 Collection or Record:

Exponent II administrative records, 1970s-2010

 Series
Identifier: MSS 1527 Series 1
Scope and Contents Contains Exponent II’s administrative records, including minutes from 1974 to 2010, articles and by-laws, financial and tax records, subscription documents, staff job descriptions, photographs and scrapbooks, design templates, notes, contributor and editor guidelines, and papers special events and various other aspects of the organization. Also contains topical files on Lavina Fielding Anderson, Sonia Johnson, the United States Equal Rights Amendment, and a topical file on various other...
Dates: 1970s-2010
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Exponent II records

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