Manning Johnson
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| Born | December 17, 1908 Washington, D.C. |
| Died | Script error: The function "death_date_and_age" does not exist. Lake Arrowhead Village, California, U.S. |
| Alma mater | Naval Air Technical School |
| Occupation | Political activist |
| Website | www |
Manning Rudolph Johnson (December 17th, 1908–July 2nd, 1959)[1] was the Communist candidate for U.S. Representative from New York 22nd District, 1935; he subsequently left the party and wrote Color, Communism, and Common sense. Johnson was a government witness in the perjury trial of Harry Bridges and before the Committee on Un-American Activities.[2]
Biography
In the perjury trial of Labor Leader Harry Bridges in 1949, he was a government witness.[3] His testimony that he saw Bridges address a Communist National Committee meeting in 1936, and how he recalled voting to "re-elect" Bridges to the national committee two years later under the alias of "Rossi" was instrumental in Bridges' conviction.[4]
In 1953 he testified before the Committee on Un-American Activities of the U.S. House of Representatives, 83rd Congress. Robert L. Kunzig, chief counsel for the committee, asked "Was deceit a major policy of Communist propaganda and activity?" Johnson answered, "Yes, it was. They made fine gestures and honeyed words to the church people which could be well likened unto the song of the fabled sea nymphs luring millions to moral decay, spiritual death, and spiritual slavery...".[5][6] He also testified in 1949.[7][8] His book, Color, Communism, and Common sense, published by Archibald Roosevelt's activist press, The Alliance Inc., was quoted by G. Edward Griffin in his 1969 motion picture lecture More Deadly than War ... the Communist Revolution in America.
He recorded a speech, known as "Manning Johnson's Farewell Address", with his views on equality, respect and vision for the future, criticizing the practices of the NAACP and of Negro radicals. It was available on an LP recording from KEY Records[9] in the mid 1960s.
Manning Johnson died following an auto accident which had occurred on June 26, 1959 just south of Lake Arrowhead Village, California. He is buried at Fort Rosecrans National Cemetery in San Diego, California.[10]
References
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- ↑ United States. Hearings Regarding Communist Infiltration of Minority Groups. (Testimony of Manning Johnson) Part II...July 14, 1949.
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- ↑ National Cemetery Administration. U.S. Veterans' Gravesites, ca.1775-2006 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2006. Ancestry, Inc. Retrieved July 13, 2018.
External links
- www.ManningJohnson.org (contains text of Color, Communism, and Common Sense)
