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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.

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