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...Congress; George D. Stoddard, president of the University of Illinois; Arthur H. Compton, chancellor of Washington University (St. Louis); Anne O'Hare McCormick of the New York Times. Alternates: Chester Bowles, ex-OPA Administrator; Milton Eisenhower, president of Kansas State College; Charles S. Johnson, president-elect of Fisk University (see below); George N. Shuster, president of Hunter College; Anna Rosenberg of OWMR...
Sociologist Charles Spurgeon Johnson had been "understanding" white folks for Negroes and Negroes for white folks much of his life. Last week, at 53, he became the first Negro president of Nashville's Fisk University...
...Johnson went to Fisk as head of social studies. With an interracial team of experts, he has studied such race-strained cities as San Francisco, Detroit, St. Louis and New Orleans. Next target: Minneapolis. He was U.S. delegate on the League of Nations Commission on Liberia, which helped abolish slavery in the African republic...
Three and a half years ago Johnson invited a group of whites to Fisk to live, eat and work for three weeks in unheard-of proximity to Negroes. It was a dangerous experiment for Nashville, but Johnson carried it off; and it has become an annual affair. Says Johnson: "People who are separated in their compartments always believe the worst of others. If you bring them together so that it doesn't violate their first defenses, they discover that the worst isn't going to happen...
...certain rooting in the South," thinks he goes as fast as he can. He knows his new job will be difficult ("Unquestionably I will have more limited mobility than a white president") but it will be worth it. Says he: "I have built a great deal of myself into Fisk...