How Eddie Bernice Johnson became EBJ - Part 1

The granddaughter of sharecroppers, Eddie Bernice Johnson has been a fixture in Dallas politics for more than 50 years. For three decades she has represented southern Dallas in Congress. Her life story is ingrained in the story of the city. Here, in part one of a two-part ‘Deep Side,’ hosted by editorials editor Rudy Bush and the UNT System’s Paul Corliss, Johnson recalls her childhood in Waco, being educated in the north and returning to a segregated Dallas as a nurse, but where her frustration with injustice led to a life in politics.