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Charles S. Johnson died of a heart attack on October 27, 1956, in Louisville, KentuckyCharles Johnson was born on July 24 1893, in Bristol, Virginia1919, race riots broke out in a number of United States citiesend of race riotsThe Negro in Chicago: A Study of Race Relations and a Race Riot, published in 1922Fisk University appointed Johnson as its first African American president.Shadow of the Plantation publishedGrowing up in the Black Belt publishedHe founded the journal Opportunityhe studied sociology with the noted sociologist Robert E. Park at the University of Chicago, Illinois where he earned a Ph.D. in 1917Johnson was awarded the Harmon Prize for Science, for his work The Negro in American CivilizationPeriods
He accepted a teaching position at Fisk University
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