Archie Johnson, published Uncle Tom Speaks, a tongue in cheek series of broadsides (Voice, (9/1/67) (25 May '67). He traded me teaching him to write for teaching me chess in which he was an Air Force champion. He took me to the technicolor black clubs downtown and to the Fort Bragg PX, had also been in the Congo evacuating hostages from Stanleyville. In the end his diction became Shakespearean. We visited Archie Johnson the next year, driving to Lumberton from Austin and stayed with him. The mother of his child was just sure I would not show. Dear Andy & Ann June 10, 1971
Priscilla I were very pleased to hear from you. She grows like America did with the Louisiana Purchase. She helps me keep the monster in the closet—“E.” [his wife, Eroshia]
You know I was always interested in how Freud got his hands on all that unconscious stuff. He possessed it personally. I mean that at this point it’s quite obvious that regarding how much we psychoanalyze others, their light shines brighter in the “self.” I realize that I’m stepping on my man but truisms seem almost invariably to reign. What Jew that are left, much in vanishing, vanishing – diminutively so. (You were absolutely magnificent at work when you wrote that).
Believe it or not I will finish up in May. Then I will go to Duke for the final crossing over into America who seems to – really for metaphysical reasons – killed in its proclivity to grow. For the love of Priscilla, we must try ineffably to engender the growth sperm into her uterus once again. Because it is our America we must somehow impede the vanishing, that is so indubitable
This business of living is for reasons constantly emerging,, is enough to make all of us overly sedate –with understandably exception—and strive for a Philosophy that is Healthy. Congratulations to the two of you. I didn’t receive anything for Xmas.
I close to a world that shows no signs of vanishing,
familiarly Archie.
[he refers to the poem],
The Vanishing American
Like peppermint jelly
Exploding at night,
Alexander, alexander,
Alexander-Nebuchadnezzar
Is white.
Archie Lee "Top" Johnson, 63, a native of the Hickman Hill community of Havelock, died Monday, May 19, 2008, in Crystal Bluff, Morehead City.He was a graduate of J.T. Barber High School, and Fayetteville State University and attended Duke University. He was a veteran of the U.S. Air Force and was formerly employed with N.C. Mutual Life Insurance Company.
The funeral will be at 1:30 p.m., Sunday, May 25, 2008, at Green Chapel Missionary Baptist Church, Hickman Hill Loop Road, Havelock, with the Rev. J.R. Smith Sr. officiating. Burial will be in the Hickman Cemetery with military honors.
He is survived by his daughter, Priscilla Evans of Lumberton; five brothers, David Johnson of Norfolk, Va., Cleveland Johnson of New Bern, Willie Johnson of Durham, Ronnie Johnson of Providence, R.I., and Kenis Johnson of Havelock; three sisters, Jerdine Johnson and Sadie M. Ferguson, both of Havelock, and Vender Jordan of Norfolk, Va.; and two grandchildren.
The family will receive friends at the residence of Jerdine Johnson, 168 Hickman Hill Road. Viewing will be from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Friday and 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday at Oscar's Mortuary.
Charles I. Brown. Assistant to the President of Fayetteville State University. Rudolph Jones.
"charles i. brown" assistant to the president, fayetteville state university
https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED098858.pdf
Brown, Charles I.The White Student Enrolled in the Traditionally
Public Black College and University' and in https://dlg.usg.edu/record/ia_iassu_facultyresear2621972sava/fulltext.text
Estate of Dr. Charles I. Brown. FSU National Alumni Association $ 25,000 + FSU annual report 200708
Notable: A Story of Survival HISTORY OF ELIZABETH CITY STATE UNIVERSITY
?MINNIE MILLER BROWN, RALEIGH - Mrs. Minnie Miller Brown of 2205 Candyflower Place died Sunday, December 3, 1995.
Mrs. Brown was born in Salisbury to the late William and Etta Jane Miller. She was married to Dr. Charles I Brown, an associate professor at Fayetteville State University. She was a graduate of Bennett College with a Bachelor's degree in Home Economics and received her Masters degree in Rural Sociology from Cornell University. She taught home economics, worked in varying positions with the N.C. Agricultural Extension Service, was a professor for several higher education institutions and conducted many workshops and lectures on special programs. Her list of professional memberships was very extensive and impressive and included Alpha Epsilon Honor Society, Delta Sigma Theta Sorority and Pi Lamda Theta Honor Society. She held several offices and served on many committees at both the regional and national levels.Mrs. Brown wrote many publications and articles and presented several papers at different symposiums and seminars.Her survivors include her husband, Dr. Charles I. Brown of the home; God-daughters, Mynetta Burney Edwards of Chalfont, Pa. and Faith Speaks Sims of Salisbury; God-son, Herman Burney Jr. of Wilmington; sisters, Anne Miller Billingslea of Atlanta, Ga. and Marie Miller Burney of Winston-Salem; brothers, Leroy ``Pop' Miller of Charlotte and Joseph Charles Miller of Salisbury; as well as two grandchildren.
Obit Dr. Charles I Brown
Charles Brown Obituary
Dr. Charles I. Brown of Raleigh, NC was born August 6, 1920 and departed this life on May 20, 2004. He was 83.
Dr. Brown was the fifth of nine siblings born in Columbia, SC to
Anderson and Jesse Octavia Metz Brown. His parents, all of his brothers
and sisters and his wife of 45 years, Minnie Thelma Miller Brown of
Salisbury, NC preceded him in death.
Dr. and Mrs. Brown had no
children, but his deceased wife's brothers and sisters survived him, a
host of nieces, nephews, and grandnieces and grandnephews from both his
and his late wife's family. Left to mourn his legacy are his many
students, proteges, colleagues and friends.
Dr. Brown was a
member of Davie Street Presbyterian Church in Raleigh. Dr. Brown,
Professor Emeritus of Fayetteville State University, was a graduate of
the university, receiving his baccalaureate there. He received his
Master's degree from North Carolina Central University and the Ed.S. and
Ph.D. degrees from Rutgers University.
He joined the Association
for Institutional Research in 1970 and was instrumental in establishing
the Southern Association for Institutional Research, the North Carolina
Association for Institutional Research and Traditionally Black Colleges
and Universities SIG of the Association of Institutional Research which
granted him President Emeritus status in 1989. In 2000, the Association
for Institutional Research established the C.I Brown Dissertation
Fellowship Award in his honor.
Dr. Brown was active in many
civic, fraternal and community- based organizations. He was a Life
Member of Eta Sigma Chapter of Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, Inc. the FSU
Alumni Association and the Raleigh YMCA. He served on the Board of
Directors of SIWEL, a consulting firm in South Bend, IN and was past
president of the FSU Alumni Association and the FSU Retirees Club among
others.
Lea Funeral Home is handling final arrangements. Rev.
Byron A. Wade, David Street Presbyterian Church, will preside over the
services.
A memorial service in absentia is planned by
Fayetteville State University and an Omega service will be conducted by
Eta Sigma Chapter of Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, Inc.
In lieu of
floral expressions, friends, relatives and supporters are encouraged to
contribute to the C.I. Brown Scholarship Fund at Fayetteville State
University.
Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him that loved us.
For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities.
Nor things present, nor things
to come,
Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature,
Shall be able to separate us from the love of God,
which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Romans 8:37-39
I'm after giving homage to friends and Charlie Brown has long need acknowledgment for his friendship and deft guidance when I served as Asst Prof of English there in 67-68. he it was who suggested I get student evaluations when we were terminated. These resulted in some astonishing responses. His office was right around the corner from mine. He had a genial nature, or just liked me, said once i reminded him of his son, but I don't know if he had any. We played tennis once a week on the FSC asphalt courts. He would always laboriously warm up and stretch.
Dr. Jack Washington came into my mind this morning as I walked the streets in prayer. I return to find him deceased at 67 after a notable career. He was my student at FSU and had just been through the Newark riots. He said that myself and Paul Roberts (History) completely contradicted everything he knew about the Caucasoid up to then. He had passion and light and another thing I liked about him, he was challenging. He wrote among other works: In Search of a Community's Past: The Black Community in Trenton, New Jersey, 1860-1900. The Quest for Equality: Trenton's Black Community 1890-1965. The Long Journey Home: A Bicentennial History of the Black Community of Princeton, New Jersey, 1776-1976 (2004) (Africa World Press. His daughter, Dr. Dawne Washington, of Brown Girl’s Vision, LLc has continued the legacy of her late father. We played some one and one basketball in the gym at the end of my stay in '68. He missed the first shot so I got the ball and made a consecutive ten in a row from far out. In that game you get the ball back if you make it. So he said, I'll move you off your spot (at 30 ft) and rolled the next ball to the other side. I made another ten. He couldn't believe it. It provoked his statement above. I think of this because my son emceed a game at his kid's school and before hand I visit, stand at the foul line and take a shot. It only goes 2/3 of the way to rim! God is our refuge and strength.
Archie Lee Johnson d. 2008, comes to mind now from Fayetteville of that era, deceased at 63. In Jan of ’68 at he tipped me to himself and a group of six students who were to carry a coffin up the sidewalk of Hay Street as theater. I went downtown to watch from a deli-with big windows as they went past on the other side, very fast, prudent considering the time and place. He had been in Stanleyville with the air force. We made a deal that he would teach me chess, he had been a champion in the air force, and I would get him over the grammatical hump. He became a radical too, didn't eat for weeks and weeks, published an underground newsletter, facetiously called, "Uncle Tom Speaks." Archie at that time was practically starving himself to death and was under immense strain, mostly from himself.In the end his diction became Shakespearean.
After being fired from FSC in 68 and landing then at Texas, the next spring we went back for a visit, drove our white MGB the southern route through Biloxi, followed all the way by the police, and stayed with a Archie in Lumberton On that occasion, also visiting Karl Hillie I actually went in to visit the president, Dr Rudolph Jones after all that had gone down, 6 white teachers recruited via the Rockefeller grants all fired of a sudden a week before graduation in 68, this from a series of intrigues by counter reformation elements in the student govt I was told of by the Assistant to the president, Charles I Brown a friend and the last person to seek me out to say a reluctant good by when we had left Fayetteville the spring before. Looking back the intriques and counters are as always a series of mistakes made good by power. President Jones no doubt saw the removal of 6 white teachers as the least painless solution to the problem of the students taking over the administration building the weeks before and seriously challenging his authority. They did keep two M.A.s because Barbara Meyerson was a favorite of the student pres, and Karl Hillie was borderline infirm. In the executive meetings each teacher was voted on individually. I was told, my wife and I were passed over in silence by the department chair when she was asked what about them? No wonder. One of our number had gotten her stoned at recent party when we had expressly said not to, and she lost it, actively tried seduction. Her novel was called The Devil is a Lonely Man. She had picked the bones of more than one male student. So I was let go, who later visited students in the homes in D.C. stayed with them in N.C. and visited with the Pres, clearly wild card acts, but otherwise I had never gone to Texas and met the true wife of fifty years, Eden, with whom I have gone to the ends of the earth and beyond. All this forced me to Austin as the second best position, but it unleashed everything that occurred there.
We had all somehow joined the AAUP, which mandates some minimal standards even for such slight hires off the cuff as we all were, meaning you can’t just importunately fire them without some semblance of due process and we made an appeal and they had issued a slight censure in the Council of Higher Ed bulletin at that time, so when Dr. Jones received me a year later he was a little surprised I would visit him. He said at that time again that he had always appreciated my enthusiasm, but that he wished I had done what I did, presumably the censure, and of course I said the same, I wish you hadn’t done what you did, meaning the firing, so it was a humorous visit too, with some nuance. I thought then the value of the action was to challenge his reputation as Sundown Jones, be off the campus by sundown, as was his reputation. It was a good challenge because it gave some check to autocratic authority and implied some faculty rights. Who but entitled white radical MAs would even think such a ridiculous thing?
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