Timothy V. Johnson

Timothy V. Johnson is the former director of the Tamiment Library and Wagner Labor Archives at New York University.

LATEST ARTICLES BY Timothy V. Johnson

Culture

Rescuing the lost history of anti-colonial fighter and Communist W. Alphaeus Hunton
February 16, 2022 By Timothy V. Johnson
Hunton, a leading figure in the struggle for African American equality and against colonialism, was a well-known figure from the 1930s through the 1950s. The silencing of Black communist history, however, has left his life unexamined...
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Culture

Frank Chapman, veteran activist, tackles Black Liberation and national question in book
December 15, 2021 By Timothy V. Johnson
Chapman’s latest book, Marxist-Leninist Perspectives on Black Liberation and Socialism, traces the history of and connections between the struggle for socialism and the African American freedom movement.
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Culture

How Communist ‘popular front’ activism built a labor-community alliance that changed Detroit
August 24, 2020 By Timothy V. Johnson
Rather than focusing on the CPUSA’s relation to the Soviet party—a favorite topic of historians—Ryan Pettengill has begun to unearth the everyday activities of rank-and-file Communists.
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