Johnson, Oakley C., 1890-....
Variant namesUniversity of Michigan student, and later, instructor (1920-1928)who acted as faculty advisor to the Negro-Caucasian Club. Also taught at the City College of New York (1930-32), though dismissed in part for involvement in the radical student Liberal Club. From 1940 to 1944, Johnson worked on the staff of the Daily Worker.
From the description of Oakley Johnson papers, 1926-1934, 1966-1969. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 244064958
Scholar; civil rights advocate; executive secretary of the Louisiana Civil Rights Congress (1949-1951).
From the description of Oakley Johnson papers, 1946-1959 [microform]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 238022065
English professor, civil liberties advocate.
Johnson served as executive secretary of the Louisiana chapter of the Civil Rights Congress, 1949-1951.
From the description of Oakley C. Johnson papers, 1946-1957. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122378676
- 1890, March 22Born in Standish, Michigan; son of Calvin and Elizabeth Gibbon Johnson.
- 1908-1912Served as rural schoolteacher and took summer courses at Ferris Institute, Big Rapids, Michigan.
- 1912Joined Socialist Party of America.
- 1913Married Mary Olmsted (d.1949)
- 1917Received diploma and state teachers' life certificate from Michigan State Normal College, Ypsilanti, Michigan.
- 1919Delegate to Chicago Communist Party Organizing Convention.
- 1920Received A.B. degree cum laude (Phi Beta Kappa) from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan.
- 1920-1928Instructor in English and Rhetoric at the University of Michigan.
- 1921Received M.A. degree in English from the University of Michigan
- 1928Received Ph.D. in English from University of Michigan. Subject of doctoral dissertation was Literary Allusion in Contemporary American Literature, as characterized in the field of rhetoric and aesthetics.
- 1928-1930Assistant Professor of English at Long Island University, Brooklyn, New York
- 1930-1932Instructor of English at the College of the City of New York (evening session), New York, New York
- 1933-1935Newspaper reporter ( Daily Worker,) editor ( The Monthly Review), teacher (New York Worker School), lecturer
- 1935-1937 and 1939Traveled in Europe
- 1935-1936Assistant Professor of English at the Institute of Modern Languages, Moscow, U.S.S.R.
- 1938-1942Taught intermittently at the Workers Schools, New York, and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- 1940-1944Served on staff of Daily Worker
- 1945-1946Taught at Augusta Savage School, New York (Harlem), New York
- 1946-1947Assistant Professor of English at Talladega College, Talladega Alabama
- 1947-1948Received Carnegie Grant-in-Aid for a study of “Preventive Remedial English in the Negro Secondary School.”
- 1947-1951Associate Professor of English, Dillard University, New Orleans, Louisiana
- 1948Married Mary Lea Jackson
- 1949-1951Served as Executive Secretary of the Louisiana Civil Rights Congress
- 1951-1951Received Carnegie Grant-in-Aid for a study of “Unequal Justice in Louisiana.”
- 1951-1952Associate Professor of English, Tillotson College, Austin, Texas
- 1954-1955Taught at Jefferson School of Social Science, New York, New York
- 1957, AprilInvestigated by the House of Representative Committee on Un-American Activities for alleged communist activities
- 1957Took extended trip through the South, during which he became involved in the defense of the Jenkins couple.Co-Author of:The Way of Composition (1925)Author of:The Arguer's Handbook (1927)The Day is Coming (1957)An American Century (ed. 1967)
From the guide to the Oakley C. Johnson papers, 1946-1957, (The New York Public Library. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division.)
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Birth 1890
