Nuclear Museum Logo
Nuclear Museum Logo

National Museum of Nuclear Science & History

Luzell Johnson

Cement FinisherHanford, WA

African-AmericanManhattan Project VeteranProject Worker/Staff
Hanford Listen to Luzell Johnson’s Oral History on Voices of the Manhattan Project

Luzell Johnson left a factory job in Alabama for a much higher-paying one as a cement finisher at Hanford. His wife later joined him, and they bought a house in Hanford; like many Hanford workers, Johnson settled in the area after the war.

Related Profiles

Bert C. Lee

Hanford, WA

V. J. Cronan

Hanford, WA

A. L. Crow

B Reactor/100 Area

Crow worked at the 100-D Area at Hanford during the Manhattan Project. 

H. D. Kinsey

Oak Ridge, TN

H. D. Kinsey worked for the Union Carbide & Carbon Corporation.