William Johnson (barber)

William T. Johnson (c. 1809 – June 17, 1851) was a free African American barber of biracial parentage, who lived in Natchez, Mississippi.

Johnson trained with his brother-in-law James Miller as a barber, and began working in Port Gibson, Mississippi.

Johnson loaned money to many people, including the governor of Mississippi who had signed his emancipation papers.

Johnson was murdered in 1851 after an adjudicated boundary dispute, by a mixed-race neighbor named Baylor Winn, in front of his son, a free black apprentice, and a slave.

Through an act of Congress, the home of William Johnson became a part of the Natchez National Historical Park in 1990.