Several visitors to Gee's Bend, Ala. were talking to an old Negro, and making heavy weather of it. The old man spotted a friend and called out: "Mistuh Johnson, Mistuh Johnson! Come on over hyar and understan' 'em fer me."
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.
In 1919, just home from the Meuse-Argonne, he walked down a Chicago street right into the disastrous race riot in which 25 Negroes and 15 whites were killed, 538...
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