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Floy Givhan brought a photo from a football team from her high school, Lincoln Jr. High School. She had many friends on the football team, but had to leave school when she became pregnant as a junior in 1960.

Bottom: John Philip Johnson poses in front of a Christmas tree celebrating the holidays on Pleasant St.

Top Right: John Philip Johnson (age 24) and Christabel Johnson (age 20) are pictured at Riverside Park in May 1937 with their…

This book, made by Shirley Johnson, accounts the Johnson family history and their migration from Pheba, Mississippi. The story mainly follows the life and descendants of the first Johnsons who migrated to Beloit: Andrew James Johnson Jr, Joseph…

Floy attended Burdge Elementary on Olympian Blvd. She is the young girl in the front row, second from the left.

This photo features Reverend Shed Barksdale, contributed by either Wanda Sloan or Sheryll Caldwell, both close friends of Ms. Lawrence. Rev. Barksdale was a minister who filled in for the ministers of Beloit’s New Zion Baptist Church and Beloit’s…

Carolyn Lawrence received this photograph from Mr. Jake Brickson, a professional photographer whose wife is close with Ms. Lawrence. It was taken in either the late 1960s or early 1970s, and depicts members of Beloit’s Women’s Culture Club. Made up…

Left to right: Floy Gihvan, her brother Clauzell Givhan, and their cousin Roberta Foster standing on a bridge in New Albany, Mississippi, their family’s hometown.

Burdge Elementary on Olympian Blvd, where Floy attended school.

These three cousins have a unique thing they share: their name! All three were named Floy Givhan.

Floy’s father, Robert Givhan, worked in the Fairbanks Morse foundry for thirty years after coming North from Mississippi in the 1930s.