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Johnson's "radical" grandfather was none other than Charles S. Johnson, President of Fisk University one of the historical black colleges and universities most distinguished institutions. And like the African American intelligentsia played an important role in the Civil Rights Movement, a movement that was singled out not unlike every other progressive organizations as being communist fronts by red baiting segregationist.
For Jeh Johnson to relate the present day calls for Muslim witch-hunts and the experiences of his grandfather is perfectly logical considering the historical precedents set not only by the McCarthy era but the Red scare of the 1920's.
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