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Lenwood Johnson
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Lenwood E. Johnson (died May 2018) was an activist who fought for public housing and African-American rights in Houston, Texas. He campaigned to prevent the demolition of Allen Parkway Village (APV), a public housing complex in the Fourth Ward, managed by the Housing Authority of the City of Houston (HACH), now known as Houston Housing Authority (HHA). By the 2010s he became an activist seeking to preserve the history of the Fourth Ward itself.
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