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{"value"=>"1946-1957", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1946/1957"}
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1946
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1957
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1946
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{"value"=>"Oakley C. Johnson papers"}
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{"format"=>"simple", "value"=>"8 Archival Boxes"}
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{"value"=>"<span class=\"corpname\">The New York Public Library Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture</span>"}
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{"value"=>"English"}
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{"value"=>"Johnson, Oakley C., 1890-", "type"=>"persname"}
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{"value"=>"<div class=\"head\">Chronology</div> <ul class=\"chronlist\"> <li class=\"chronitem\"> <span class=\"date\">1890, March 22</span> <span class=\"event\">Born in Standish, Michigan; son of Calvin and Elizabeth Gibbon Johnson.</span></li> <li class=\"chronitem\"> <span class=\"date\">1908-1912</span> <span class=\"event\">Served as rural schoolteacher and took summer courses at Ferris Institute, Big Rapids, Michigan.</span></li> <li class=\"chronitem\"> <span class=\"date\">1912</span> <span class=\"event\">Joined Socialist Party of America.</span></li> <li class=\"chronitem\"> <span class=\"date\">1913</span> <span class=\"event\">Married Mary Olmsted (d.1949)</span></li> <li class=\"chronitem\"> <span class=\"date\">1917</span> <span class=\"event\">Received diploma and state teachers' life certificate from Michigan State Normal College, Ypsilanti, Michigan.</span></li> <li class=\"chronitem\"> <span class=\"date\">1919</span> <span class=\"event\">Delegate to Chicago Communist Party Organizing Convention.</span></li> <li class=\"chronitem\"> <span class=\"date\">1920</span> <span class=\"event\">Received A.B. degree cum laude (Phi Beta Kappa) from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan.</span></li> <li class=\"chronitem\"> <span class=\"date\">1920-1928</span> <span class=\"event\">Instructor in English and Rhetoric at the University of Michigan.</span></li> <li class=\"chronitem\"> <span class=\"date\">1921</span> <span class=\"event\">Received M.A. degree in English from the University of Michigan</span></li> <li class=\"chronitem\"> <span class=\"date\">1928</span> <span class=\"event\">Received Ph.D. in English from University of Michigan. Subject of doctoral dissertation was <span class=\"title\">Literary Allusion in Contemporary American Literature</span>, as characterized in the field of rhetoric and aesthetics.</span></li> <li class=\"chronitem\"> <span class=\"date\">1928-1930</span> <span class=\"event\">Assistant Professor of English at Long Island University, Brooklyn, New York</span></li> <li class=\"chronitem\"> <span class=\"date\">1930-1932</span> <span class=\"event\">Instructor of English at the College of the City of New York (evening session), New York, New York</span></li> <li class=\"chronitem\"> <span class=\"date\">1933-1935</span> <span class=\"event\">Newspaper reporter ( <span class=\"title\">Daily Worker</span>,) editor ( <span class=\"title\">The Monthly Review</span>), teacher (New York Worker School), lecturer</span></li> <li class=\"chronitem\"> <span class=\"date\">1935-1937 and 1939</span> <span class=\"event\">Traveled in Europe</span></li> <li class=\"chronitem\"> <span class=\"date\">1935-1936</span> <span class=\"event\">Assistant Professor of English at the Institute of Modern Languages, Moscow, U.S.S.R.</span></li> <li class=\"chronitem\"> <span class=\"date\">1938-1942</span> <span class=\"event\">Taught intermittently at the Workers Schools, New York, and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania</span></li> <li class=\"chronitem\"> <span class=\"date\">1940-1944</span> <span class=\"event\">Served on staff of <span class=\"title\">Daily Worker</span></span></li> <li class=\"chronitem\"> <span class=\"date\">1945-1946</span> <span class=\"event\">Taught at Augusta Savage School, New York (Harlem), New York</span></li> <li class=\"chronitem\"> <span class=\"date\">1946-1947</span> <span class=\"event\">Assistant Professor of English at Talladega College, Talladega Alabama</span></li> <li class=\"chronitem\"> <span class=\"date\">1947-1948</span> <span class=\"event\">Received Carnegie Grant-in-Aid for a study of “Preventive Remedial English in the Negro Secondary School.”</span></li> <li class=\"chronitem\"> <span class=\"date\">1947-1951</span> <span class=\"event\">Associate Professor of English, Dillard University, New Orleans, Louisiana</span></li> <li class=\"chronitem\"> <span class=\"date\">1948</span> <span class=\"event\">Married Mary Lea Jackson</span></li> <li class=\"chronitem\"> <span class=\"date\">1949-1951</span> <span class=\"event\">Served as Executive Secretary of the Louisiana Civil Rights Congress</span></li> <li class=\"chronitem\"> <span class=\"date\">1951-1951</span> <span class=\"event\">Received Carnegie Grant-in-Aid for a study of “Unequal Justice in Louisiana.”</span></li> <li class=\"chronitem\"> <span class=\"date\">1951-1952</span> <span class=\"event\">Associate Professor of English, Tillotson College, Austin, Texas</span></li> <li class=\"chronitem\"> <span class=\"date\">1954-1955</span> <span class=\"event\">Taught at Jefferson School of Social Science, New York, New York</span></li> <li class=\"chronitem\"> <span class=\"date\">1957, April</span> <span class=\"event\">Investigated by the House of Representative Committee on Un-American Activities for alleged communist activities</span></li> <li class=\"chronitem\"> <span class=\"date\">1957</span> <div class=\"eventgrp\"> <span class=\"event\">Took extended trip through the South, during which he became involved in the defense of the Jenkins couple.</span> <span class=\"event\">Co-Author of:</span> <span class=\"event\"> <span class=\"title\">The Way of Composition</span> (1925)</span> <span class=\"event\">Author of:</span> <span class=\"event\"> <span class=\"title\">The Arguer's Handbook</span> (1927)</span> <span class=\"event\"> <span class=\"title\">The Day is Coming</span> (1957)</span> <span class=\"event\"> <span class=\"title\">An American Century</span> (ed. 1967)</span></div></li></ul>"}
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{"value"=>"<p>The Oakley C. Johnson Papers, numbering eight boxes, focus on the activities and interests of this English professor and civil liberties advocate from approximately 1946 to 1957. Of special interest is the data relating to Johnson's involvement with Louisiana Civil Rights Congress, and his manuscripts of writings on racial prejudice in the United States.</p> <p>The collection is organized into two series, corresponding to Johnson's years of teaching in the South from 1946 to 1952 and his activities after returning North in 1952.</p>"}
{"value"=>"<p class='list-head'>The Oakley C. Johnson papers are arranged in two series:</p>\n<ul class='arrangement series-descriptions'>\n<li><div class='series-title'><a href='/scm/20713#c648732'>Southern Period</a></div>\n<div class='series-date'>1949-1952</div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>The first series Southern Period, 1946-1952, contains material relating to Johnson's academic pursuits at Talladega College (Alabama), Dillard University (Louisiana), and Tillotson College (Texas); as well as data concerning his role as Executive Secretary of the Louisiana Civil Rights Congress from 1949 to 1951. This material (pamphlets, legal transcripts and briefs, press releases, clippings, correspondence) involves the legal activities of the Congress, particularly its attempt to secure justice for Paul Washington and Ocie Jugger, two men accused, convicted, and sentenced to die on a charge of rape.</p></div></li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/scm/20713#c648775'>Post-Southern Period</a></div>\n<div class='series-date'>1952-1959</div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>The second series Post Southern Period, 1952-1959, covers Johnson's teaching, writing, and civil rights activities after he returned to New York in 1952. Notes, source materials, and manuscripts of his extensive writings on civil liberties and segregation are included in this section, together with material concerning a trip through the South in 1957.</p></div></li></ul>\n", "type"=>"arrangement"}
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{"value"=>"<p>Gift of Oakley Johnson, 1968</p>"}
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{"value"=>"Papers organized into two series: I Southern Period, 1946-1953; and II Post Southern Period, 1952-1959", "supress_display"=>true}
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{"value"=>"<p>Researchers are restricted to microfilm copy.</p>"}
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{"value"=>"<p>Collection available on microfilm; Scholarly Resources, Inc.; call number Sc Micro R-972</p>"}
- note
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{"value"=>"<p>Guide : Shelved as: Sc F-95-444</p>", "encodinganalog"=>"500"}
{"value"=>"<p>\"Manuscript Collections from the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture: Guide to the Scholarly Resources Microfilm Edition.\" Wilmington, DE: Scholarly Resources, Inc., 1995</p>", "encodinganalog"=>"555"}
- abstract
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{"value"=>"Case files from the Louisiana Civil Rights Congress including pamphlets, legal transcripts and briefs, press releases, news clippings, and correspondence which documents the legal activities of the Congress, particularly its attempt to secure justice for Paul Washington and Ocie Jugger, both sentenced to death on rape charges. Material from Johnson's hearing before the House Un-American Activities Committee, 1957; and manuscripts and materials from his research for several writing projects, including \"Marxism and the Negro,\" \"Mask of Justice,\" and a \"Glossary of Twenty-five Historic Civil Rights Cases.\" Also, notes, source materials, and manuscripts of his extensive writings on civil liberties and segregation, together with material concerning a trip through the South in 1957."}
- prefercite
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{"value"=>"Oakley C. Johnson papers, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, The New York Public Library"}
- processinfo
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{"value"=>"<p>Processed by Stanton F. Biddle; Machine-readable finding aid created by Apex Data Services; revised by Terry Catapano.</p>"}
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1946
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1957