[2] It was one of eleven black community colleges which were founded, at the urging of the Florida Legislature, in the late 1950s and early 1960s to show that a "separate but equal" educational system for blacks existed in Florida; the Legislature wished to avoid the integration mandated by the Supreme Court's Brown v. Board of Education decision of 1954.
[3] The college was named for local Negro educator John Wesley Johnson.
[6] The college offered college parallel (transfer) programs and technical programs in Secretarial Science, Food Services, Laboratory Technology, Technical Secretary, Auto Mechanics, and Cosmetology.
[13] Three days after the dedication of the new facilities in 1965, the Lake County Board of Public Instruction determined, in view of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, that the two colleges would be combined, although in practice Johnson Junior College was simply closed.
[15] The high school used some of the facilities, and by the beginning of the 1966–67 academic year, the Johnson Center was closed, Williams took a job elsewhere, and all of the facilities built for Johnson Junior College had been turned over to the high school.