Academic Historian

Charles D. Johnson is an Assistant Professor and the Director of the Public History Program in the Department of History at North Carolina Central University (NCCU) in Durham, North Carolina. Dr. Johnson earned his B.A. at Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia. His graduate work was completed at North Carolina Central University, where he earned the Master of Arts in History, and at Howard University in Washington, D.C., where he earned the Ph.D. in History.

He is the former Director of the South African Research and Archival Project (SARAP) at Howard University. Working with Dr. Joseph E. Harris, Dr. Johnson helped to create a web-accessible relational database of information pertaining to relations between African Americans and South Africans during the anti-apartheid era. This research contributed to his article “Re-thinking the Emergence of the Struggle for South African Liberation in the United States: Max Yergan and the Council on African Affairs, 1922-1946,” which appeared in the Journal of Southern African Studies (Spring 2013). As Director of the Public History Program at NCCU, Dr. Johnson teaches courses on archives and oral traditions, and his research has emphasized preserving local histories of the African American experience as well as Public History in the African Diaspora. Dr. Johnson is an award-winning teacher, and a co-author of the book Topics on African Diaspora History (2016).

Calvin Coolidge Hernton (1932-2001)

Calvin Coolidge Hernton, poet, author, teacher, mentor, and literary critic was born April 28, 1932, in Chattanooga, Tennessee to Virgil and Magnolia Jackson Hernton. Hernton is best known for his seminal work Sex and Racism in America, which gives a bold historical and sociological analysis … Read MoreCalvin Coolidge Hernton (1932-2001)