# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/charles-spurgeon-johnson
# Generated: 2026-08-14T15:00:53.981Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/charles-spurgeon-johnson"
name: "Charles Spurgeon Johnson"
slug: "charles-spurgeon-johnson"
description: "Charles Spurgeon Johnson was an American sociologist and college administrator, the first black president of historically black Fisk University, and a lifelong advocate for racial equality and the advancement of civil rights for African Americans and all ethnic minorities. He preferred to work collaboratively with liberal white groups in the South, quietly as a \"sideline activist,\" to get practical results."
tagline: "(1893-1956) American sociologist and university administrator"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Charles_S._Johnson.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1893-07-24"
deathDate: "1956-10-27"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           41.59
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.884378666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Charles S. Johnson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_S._Johnson"
    title: "Charles S. Johnson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%D8%B4%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%84%D8%B2_%D8%A5%D8%B3._%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%86%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "تشارلز إس. جونسون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Джонсон, Чарлз Спёрджен"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_S._Johnson"
    title: "Charles S. Johnson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_S._Johnson"
    title: "Charles S. Johnson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1065979"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump