held in Chicago from September 1 to 7, 1919. Johnson was a fraternal delegate to the founding convention of the Proletarian Party of America in June 1920. In the fall of 1933 Johnson stood for election as a Communist candidate for the New York State Assembly in the 9th Assembly District of New York County. Later years Johnson taught in the Communist Party's educational institution in New York City, the New York Workers School, from 1934 to 1935. The next year, Johnson traveled to the Soviet Union to accept a post as Docent in the Department of English at the Institute of Foreign Languages in Moscow, leaving at the end of the academic year in 1936. During his stay in Moscow, Johnson also worked on the staff of the Moscow Daily News. After his return from the USSR, Johnson returned to the New York Workers School, where he remained until 1942. In the late 1940s and early 1950s, Johnson spent the next six years teaching at historically black universities in the deep South, including Talladega College in Talladega, Alabama, Dillard University in New Orleans, and Tillotson College in Austin, Texas. Johnson returned to New York City in the fall of 1952 to accept a position at Brooklyn College to replace a professor who had resigned. He was, however, summarily fired by the college president after just two days because of his political beliefs. After that date, Johnson continued to teach as a tutor, "confining himself to giving private lessons to those with a foreign background who wish to study the English language," as he himself noted. Death and legacy Johnson's primary accumulation of papers are housed in the Special Collections Library at Stony Brook University in New York. Other material is held by the New York Public Library in New York City, available on 5 reels of microfilm. A smaller collection, heavily skewed towards matter dealing with his participation in the "Negro-Caucasian Club" which existed at the University of Michican from 1926 to 1927, is housed in the Special Collections Library of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. Included in this material is an unpublished autobiography by Johnson, written for his grandchildren in 1965 and entitled Trying to Live "Really Human." Footnotes Works Books and articles The Arguer's Handbook. Ann Arbor, MI: Edwards Brothers, 1928. Preventive Remedial English in the Negro Secondary School. n.c.: n.p., n.d. [c. 1949]. Art.