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Johnson, Charles Spurgeon
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Johnson, Charles S.
Source: Encyclopedia of African American History, 1896 to the Present: From the Age of Segregation to the Twenty-first Century
(b. 24 July 1893; d. 27 October 1956), sociologist, promoter of the Harlem Renaissance, and first black president of Fisk University. Charles Spurgeon Johnson was born in Bristol, Virginia, where his parents, the Reverend Charles Henry Johnson and Winifred Branch Johnson, reared their son in a religious home and a nurturing black middle-class environment that facilitated his social and intellectual development. Charles H. Johnson was the pastor of the progressive Lee Baptist Church in Bristol. Winifred Johnson was a homemaker who cared for Johnson and his five other siblings.As a child, Charles S. Johnsonworked at a black barbershop frequented by a white clientele. There he studied black culture and race relations informally, perhaps predisposing him to pursue the more structured study of sociology later. ...
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Source: Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience, Second Edition
Word Count: 1828 Includes: Bibliography1893–1956
African American sociologist and college president. Charles Spurgeon Johnson was the eldest of six children born to Charles Henry Johnson, a Baptist minister, and Winifred Branch. Because there was no high school for blacks in Bristol, he moved to Richmond and attended the Wayland Academy. In 1913Johnson entered college at Virginia Union and graduated in only three years. While at college, Johnson volunteered with the Richmond Welfare Association, and one incident there profoundly influenced his future career. During the holiday season, while delivering baskets to needy people, he encountered a pregnant woman lying on a pile of rags, moaning in labor. Although none of the doctors in the area would help the young woman, Johnson persuaded a midwife to deliver the baby. He then tried to locate a home for the young woman, but those he approached shut the door in his face. Some ...
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Source: African American National Biography
Word Count: 1826 Includes: Further Reading | Obituary:(24 July 1893–27 Oct. 1956), sociologist and college president, was born in Bristol, Virginia, the eldest of six children of Charles Henry Johnson, a Baptist minister, and Winifred Branch. Because there was not a high school for blacks in Bristol, he moved to Richmond and attended the Wayland Academy. In 1913Johnson entered college at Virginia Union in Richmond, and graduated in only three years. While at college, Johnson volunteered with the Richmond Welfare Association, and one incident there had a profound impact on his future career. During the holiday season, while delivering baskets to needy people, he came across a young woman lying on a pile of rags, groaning in labor. Although none of the doctors in the area would help the young woman, Johnson persuaded a midwife to deliver the baby. He then tried to locate a home for the young woman, but those he approached ...
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Source: American National Biography Online
Word Count: 2027 Includes: Bibliographysociologist and educator, was born in Bristol, Virginia, the son of Reverend Charles Henry Johnson, a minister in the black Baptist church, and Winifred Branch. Bristol, a small city in the state’s far southwest corner, had the usual pattern of racial segregation, and it is where Charles received his primary education. He was then sent to Richmond to a private Baptist academy linked to Virginia Union University, a leading black institution, where he completed his undergraduate degree with honors in 1916. Working part time in the Richmond ghetto, he was shocked by the racial discrimination and economic deprivation marking southern Negro life. ...
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