Rights activist Johnson at 85 - NashuaTelegraph.com
Rights activist Johnson at 85 - NashuaTelegraph.com
DETROIT – Human rights activist, educator and arts advocate Arthur Johnson died Tuesday after an extended illness, prompted in part by the debilitating effects of Parkinson’s disease. In more recent years, Johnson was best known as a university administrator. He retired as senior vice president of Wayne State University in 1995 after 23 years in various high-ranking posts.
But his impact was perhaps greatest as a stalwart soldier in the battle to end racial discrimination in housing, public education, restaurants and other public places in Detroit – the adopted home he came to love and fight tirelessly for after moving to the city from Georgia in 1950. He was born in Americus, Ga., and educated at Morehouse College and Atlanta University, both in Atlanta.
Johnson was a trusted adviser to Mayor Coleman A. Young and a comrade of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
DETROIT – Human rights activist, educator and arts advocate Arthur Johnson died Tuesday after an extended illness, prompted in part by the debilitating effects of Parkinson’s disease. In more recent years, Johnson was best known as a university administrator. He retired as senior vice president of Wayne State University in 1995 after 23 years in various high-ranking posts.
But his impact was perhaps greatest as a stalwart soldier in the battle to end racial discrimination in housing, public education, restaurants and other public places in Detroit – the adopted home he came to love and fight tirelessly for after moving to the city from Georgia in 1950. He was born in Americus, Ga., and educated at Morehouse College and Atlanta University, both in Atlanta.
Johnson was a trusted adviser to Mayor Coleman A. Young and a comrade of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
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