Manning Johnson

Foster, Jack Stachel, Alexander Bittelman, Max Bedacht, Israel Amter, Gil Green, Harry Haywood, and James S. Allen among others at the "National Training School," part of the New (York?)

"[5] From 1930 to 1939, Manning Johnson was a member of the Communist Party USA; he left shortly after the announcement of the Hitler-Stalin Pact.

[2][5] In 1935, Manning Johnson ran as a Communist Party candidate for New York's 22nd Congressional District for the United States House of Representatives.

[2][5][8] Fellow members of the Party's national Negro Commission were: James S. Allen, Elizabeth Lawson, Robert Minor, and George Blake Charney.

[5] In December 1949 during the perjury trial of labor union leader Harry Bridges, Johnson was a government witness.

Johnson's testimony hurt Bridges defense from 1945 naturalization proceedings, when he denied Communist Party membership.

Robert L. Kunzig, chief counsel for the committee, asked "Was deceit a major policy of Communist propaganda and activity?"

[11][12] In May 1954, Johnson testified against Ralph Bunche before the International Organizations' Employees Loyalty Board, as did Leonard Patterson.

In a July 1954 article entitled "The Profession of Perjury," Professor Melvin Rader attacked Johnson's credibility: Johnson's entire testimony was false; the facts were told by Edwin O, Guthman of the Seattle Times in articles which won the Pulitzer prize for the best national reporting of 1949, and by Vern Countryman, Professor of Law at Yale University in Un-American Activities in the State of Washington, Cornell University Press, 1951...

Even though the facts that prove Johnson a perjurer have been widely publicized, he has continued his career as a consultant and professional witness in the employ of the Justice Department.

[8] While testifying for Congress, Johnson spoke positively about the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).

I think this is a proper point to state that were it not for the NAACP, which has fought and is still fighting to legally correct injustices, the Urban League, to which much credit must be given for the continuing accelerated integration of Negroes in the industrial and business life of the Nation, and the many city commissions on human relations and unity, together with hundreds of Protestants, Catholics, and Jewish ministerial and interracial councils, what success communism may have obtained among Negroes must be left to speculation.

During an undated recorded speech known as "Manning Johnson's Farewell Address," he stated: The NAACP collects millions of dollars through racial incitement.

And if the legislators in the Southern States don’t make the appropriations to equalize schools the Supreme Court's not going to do it, and you can't force them to do it.

[13] Clearly, Johnson felt Brown v. Board of Education was a mistake: What the Supreme Court did was open the Pandora box.

"[13] In a December 26, 1949, a Time magazine article entitled "You'd Be Thin, Too" described him as a "husky, big-jawed... smooth, deep-voiced Negro.

"[14] Manning Johnson died following an auto accident which had occurred on June 26, 1959 just south of Lake Arrowhead Village, California.

In the face of enemies at home and abroad, if maintaining secrecy of the techniques and methods of operation of the FBI, who have responsibility of the protection of our people, I say I will do it a thousand times.