Rise of the Black Sociologist: Charles Spurgeon Johnson
Sociology is a social science that studies human society’s interactions, and the processes that allow preservation and changes in them. All this done through examining the dynamics of constituents in the organizations; this includes institutions, communities, populations, and gender, racial, or age groups. Sociology also studies the social status or stratification, social movements, social changes, as well as a societal disorder in the form of crime, deviance, and revolution. The social life overwhelmingly can regulate human behavior, this is because, and humans lack instincts that enable the guidance of animal behavior. Humans tend to depend on social institutions and organizations that give information on both their decisions and actions. Therefore the critical role of an organization that influences human activity is sociology. Given the tasks to discover the affected organizations through the behavior of persons, the much they are established, various interactions in the organizations amongst other organizations, how they decay, and finally, how they disappear.
Charles Spurgeon Johnson was born on July 24, 1893, in Bristol, Va, in the United States. He died on October 27, 1956, in Louisville. The U.S sociologists, the authority on race relations, and the first black president between the years (1946-1956) of the University of Fisk Nashville, Tenn (Hunter). After he graduated from Vision Union University, Richmond, Johnson studied under the sociologist Robert Ezra Park at the University of Chicago Commission on Race Relations in the year 1919 to 1921. Johnson was an author as well, and his first outstanding writing was The Negro in Chicago in the year 1922. The book majored in a sociological study on the rioting of races in that city in the year 1919 in July (Hunter). Johnson had a research technique defined as the “community self-survey of the race relations, “the method facilitated in the gathering of sociological data through interpretations from both the blacks and the whites. Johnson also directed research from the National Urban League in New York City. He was declared the Social Science chairman in the University department at the University of Fisk in the year 1928 to 1947. After World War 11, Johnson enabled the planning and reorganization of the education system for the Japanese (Hunter).
Charles grew up in the era of the Black Belt in the year 1941; he denied the common assertion that the different races in the United States constitute the relations as a real caste system. Johnson went ahead to point out that the status of the black in American society; they did not have universal acquiescence or a religious basis (Morris). Among his many books are include The Negro in American Civilization, written in the year 1930, The Negro College Graduate was written in 1963, and the Patterns of Negro Segregations in 1943. During the time of Charles, the atmosphere seemed violent; the black expectations rose in the year 1919, with the return of the black fighting forces. In late 1919, the national association of the advancement of people of color took the first steps towards the securing of the passage of federal law against lynching (Morris). The association succeeded in getting the Republican Representative. For four years, Johnson had attacked racism. He promoted the African-American arts and literature to the broader community. In 1927, he was able to position himself as a forge African-Americans into the larger society once again before becoming president of Fisk, Charles. S. Johnson began his tenure as head of the social sciences department with a plan of attack racism and discrimination (Morris).
Before becoming president of Fisk of FSK, Charles S. Johnson began his tenure as head of the social sciences department with a plan to attack racism and discrimination. Characteristically, Johnson stressed the working framework and aligned the committee with the best intentions of America. During Johnson’s presidency, Fisk built five significant buildings and doubled its educational budget while adding over a million dollars to the endowment. Charles Johnson and other intellectuals were keenly aware that a war of such magnitude would have far-reaching consequences upon the racial paradigm of America, and the world at large. Johnson’s optimism and visibility concerning race relations meant that he would continuously serve on boards, conduct studies, and entertain questions concerning race relations for the rest of his life. He also felt that the Negro community who were the minority should support his campaigns against the growth of anti-Semitism and the undemocratic treatment of the Japanese American Citizens. Johnson was faithfully devoted to American democracy as it slowly progressed and seemed to mirror the continued advancements of the blacks (Morris).
By the year 949, Johnson had acquired an international reputation and the pressure to maintain a segregated society heightened by anxieties related to the cold war. Johnson also traveled throughout the country, giving speeches on race relations, and this made him seem more of a patriarch in the model family. In the year 1943, November, Johnson broadly outlined the program which its primary aims of the department were to define the problem areas in race relations, and in such a manner as to make programs of actions that were comprehensively possible.
References
Hunter, Marcus A., ed. The New Black Sociologists: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives. Routledge, 2018.
Morris, Aldon. The scholar denied: WEB Du Bois and the birth of modern sociology. University of California Press, 2017.