James Hervey Johnson
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James Hervey Johnson was an American atheist. He was a editor of The Truthseeker, formerly run by Charles Lee Smith. As with Smith's cousin Woolsey Teller, Johnson was not a tactful writer on race issues.[1] He ceased to lead the Truthseeker in June 1987.[2]
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- ^ The new encyclopedia of unbelief Tom Flynn, Richard Dawkins - 2007 "James Hervey Johnson, the former editor of The Truth Seeker, and essayist Woolsey Teller were among the worst offenders. In 1945 the Truth Seeker Company published Teller's Essays of an Atheist. Teller wrote five especially racist essays: "Grading the Races," "Brains and Civilization," "There Are Superior Races," "Shall We Breed Rationally?" and "Natural Selection and War." In "Grading the Races," Teller discusses an essay by the African American atheist and historian John G. Jackson (1907-93) called "Ethiopia and the Origin of Civilization." Teller calls Jackson "a mulatto" and argues that "the ancient Egyptians were dominantly Caucasian." Moreover, he argues that the "Caucasian skull, anatomically considered, is the highest in the world.""
- ^ Ann Rowe Seaman America's Most Hated Woman: The Life and Gruesome Death of Madalyn Murray O'Hair
