{{Short description|American minstrel performer (c. 1851–1917)}} {{distinguish|J. Carroll Johnson}}

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'''Carroll Johnson''' (c. 1851–1917) was a minstrel performer in the United States.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://hdl.huntington.org/digital/collection/p16003coll4/id/2222 | title=CONTENTdm }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.loc.gov/resource/var.1784/|title=George Thatcher and Carroll Johnson's Minstrels|website=Library of Congress}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.loc.gov/item/2014637066/|title=William H. West's Big Minstrel Jubilee|website=Library of Congress}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://digital.chipublib.org/digital/collection/CPB01/id/2963/|title=Haymarket Theatre, Majestic and Matchless Minstrels (March 31, 1889)|website=digital.chipublib.org|access-date=October 16, 2021|archive-date=October 16, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211016164645/https://digital.chipublib.org/digital/collection/CPB01/id/2963/|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://digicoll.lib.berkeley.edu/record/99125?ln=en|title=Oh! you little darling, I love you!: comic song / newly arranged by Louis Schmidt, Sr|date=October 16, 1883|publisher=San Francisco|via=Digital Collections}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47df-ec17-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99|title=It's a hot combination|website=NYPL Digital Collections}}</ref> In 1892, he was touted as the merry Irish minstrel for his performance of ''The Gossoon'' by E. E. Kidder at Naylor's Opera House in Terre Haute.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://newspapers.library.in.gov/cgi-bin/indiana?a=d&d=SEM18920903.1.8&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN-------|title=Saturday Evening Mail 3 September 1892 — Hoosier State Chronicles: Indiana's Digital Historic Newspaper Program|website=newspapers.library.in.gov}}</ref>

Between 1892 and 1894, he was the principal actor (as Osmonde O'Sullivan) in the play "The Irish Statesman", written by (John) Fitzgerald Murphy.<ref>Marion (Ohio) Daily Star 13 February 1892</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=1893-05-02 |title=AN IRISH-AMERICAN PLAY. |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1893/05/02/archives/an-irishamerican-play.html |access-date=2023-03-29 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Grand Opera House, London, Ontario - Canadiana |url=https://www.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.56898/1 |access-date=2023-03-29 |website=www.canadiana.ca}}</ref>

He appears in blackface on the cover of the sheet music for "Ma Angeline".<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://nmaahc.si.edu/object/nmaahc_2014.275.9|title=Ma Angeline|website=National Museum of African American History and Culture}}</ref> His performances popularized the song "Parson Johnson's Chicken Brigade".<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://vaudeville.library.arizona.edu/items/parson-johnsons-chicken-brigade/|title=Parson Johnson's Chicken Brigade – The American Vaudeville Archive — Special Collections}}</ref> Sheet music for Carroll Johnson's Songs was published.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://levysheetmusic.mse.jhu.edu/collection/061/112|title=061.112 - Carroll Johnson's Songs. No.5. Stop Dat Car. &#124; Levy Music Collection|website=levysheetmusic.mse.jhu.edu}}</ref>

==See also== *Billy Birch

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