{"id":224,"date":"2018-02-17T14:49:21","date_gmt":"2018-02-17T18:49:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/storiesofappalachia.com\/?p=224"},"modified":"2022-05-21T08:34:10","modified_gmt":"2022-05-21T12:34:10","slug":"charles-johnson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/storiesofappalachia.com\/?p=224","title":{"rendered":"Charles Johnson"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Today we tell the story of Bristol, Virginia, native Charles S. Johnson. Born the son of a Baptist minister during the time of Jim Crow, Johnson got his college education and began a lifelong study of the causes of racism.\u00a0 His efforts doing so laid the groundwork for the civil rights movement of the 1950’s and 1960’s.<\/p>\n

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