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Levi Jordan
Plantation

Cassie Johnson

This web site also has some interesting information on the Johnson family, included here with Cassie Johnson's permission.

Cassie Johnson

Cassie is a Charter Member of the Board of Directors of the Levi Jordan Plantation Historical Society, and is a lifetime resident of Brazoria County. She attended Henry O. Tanner Elementary School in Brazoria, and Charlie Brown High School in West Columbia, Texas. Later she attended Brazosport College in Lake Jackson, married Darrell Johnson and had six children. She has worked at Dow Chemical as well as the Brazos Place Rehabilitation Center. Here is just a partial listing of her MANY other community activities:

Brazoria Chamber of Commerce
Brazoria Economic Growth Team
Brazoria Volunteer Library Committee
Brazoria Civic Club
Brazoria County Retired Teachers Association
Varner Hogg Plantation Volunteer Committee
Coordinator of 1997 Juneteenth Celebration
Coordinator of 1997 Black History Community Gathering of Brazoria County
Founder of Brazoria Men and Women of Action.

Cassie has said that she has found some of her activities to have been very, very satisfying. First, she organized the Brazoria Men and Women of Action (BMWA) the first free tutorial program in Brazoria and West Columbia libraries. Its Statement of Existence and some newspaper articles about some of its activities is attached.

She also organized a Community Black History Program "A Village Gathering", during Black History month in 1997, at which Ken Brown spoke about the Jordan Plantation archaeology and other activities took place.