Fidelia Johnson

Fidelia Olin Adams Johnson (April 17, 1905 – May 14, 1996) was an American athlete and educator. She taught home economics and coached basketball at Grambling State University from 1929 to 1970.

Early life and education Adams was born in Grambling, Louisiana, the elder daughter of Charles P. Adams and Martha Norman Adams. Her father was the founder and president of Grambling State University. Her grandfather Lewis Adams helped found Tuskegee University. She was named for Fidelia Jewett, a white philanthropist who helped fund the founding of the North Louisiana Agricultural and Industrial Institute. She earned a master's degree at the University of Iowa in 1945, with further studies at Antioch University and Michigan State University. She was a member of the Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority.

In 1925 Adams spoke at the third annual Hampton Builders' Conference in Virginia. In 1974 she was inducted into the Tuskegee University Athletics Hall of Fame. In 1978 she gave an oral history interview for the Black Women Oral History Project. She was inducted into the Grambling Hall of Fame in 1982. Her husband died in 1980, and she died in 1996, at the age of 91, in Ruston, Louisiana. The Charles P. Adams House in Grambling was named to the National Register of Historic Places, and donated to the Grambling State University Foundation.