Du Bois ' Black Reconstruction, first published in 1935, historians have noted African American contributions during Reconstruction to founding what were often the first systems of public education and welfare institutions in the South, gave muted praise for Republican efforts to extend suffrage and provide other social institutions, and excoriated Johnson for opposing the extension of basic rights to freedmen.

Johnson also noted: " There's two elements in the music — an American funk line and a Russian line.

" Dr. Johnson commented on the inoffensiveness of his nature ; Edmund Burke noted his " strong turn for humor ".

On the purpose of Acts, New Testament Scholar Luke Timothy Johnson has noted that " Luke's account is selected and shaped to suit his apologetic interests, not in defiance of but in conformity to ancient standards of historiography.

Johnson noted that the word misandry did not appear in dictionaries until recently and that comparisons between misogyny and misandry are misguided because mainstream culture offers no comparable anti-male ideology.

Shakespeare was also noted for his frequent play with less serious puns, the " quibbles " of the sort that made Samuel Johnson complain, " A quibble is to Shakespeare what luminous vapours are to the traveller!

A number of poets belong to both academia and slam: as noted above Jeffrey McDaniel slammed on several poetry slam teams, and has since published several books and currently teaches at Sarah Lawrence College ; Patricia Smith, a four-time national slam champion, went on to win several prestigious literary awards, including being nominated for the 2008 National Book Award, and being inducted into the International Literary Hall of Fame for Writers of African Descent in 2006 ; Bob Holman founded the Nuyorican Poetry Slam has taught for years at the New School, Bard, Columbia and NYU ; Craig Arnold won the Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition and has competed at slams ; Kip Fulbeck, a professor of Art at the University of California, Santa Barbara competed in slam in the early-1990s and initiated the first spoken word course to be taught as part of a college art program's core curriculum ; and poet / academics such as Michael Salinger, Felice Belle, Javon Johnson, Susan B. Anthony Somers-Willett, Robbie Q. Telfer, Phil West, Ragan Fox, and Karyna McGlynn have devoted much attention to the merging of the poetry slam community and the academic community in their respective works.

( Coincidentally, Zip the What-Is-Its real name was William Henry Jackson or Johnson ( according to various sources ); Griffith's full name is William Henry Jackson Griffith, after his great-grandfather, the noted photographer.

A State Department study noted that when King Hussein met on 8 November with Lyndon Johnson, who had been briefed by Secretary Rusk on the US interpretation, the Jordanian Monarch asked how soon the Israeli troops would withdraw from most of the occupied lands.

According to the Church of Satan historiography, other LaVey associates from this time include noted Science Fiction and Horror writers Anthony Boucher, August Derleth, Robert Barbour Johnson, Reginald Bretnor, Emil Petaja, Stuart Palmer, Clark Ashton Smith, Forrest J. Ackerman, and Fritz Leiber Jr.

Writing for the Wall Street Journal, Ian Johnson noted that " Falun Gong faithful have mustered what is arguably the most sustained challenge to authority in 50 years of Communist rule.

Ian Johnson disputes the theory that Li made any serious money from Falun Gong, and noted that during the period of Falun Gong's greatest book sales in China, Li Hongzhi did not receive royalties because all publications were bootleg ( the texts having been banned by the authorities in 1996 in an attempt to curb the practice's growth ).

David subsequently employed the noted architect Philip Johnson to redesign the museum garden and name it in honor of his mother, the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Sculpture Garden.

" It should be noted there is no convincing evidence that Johnson was in fact refused passage on the Titanic because of his race, as these songs allege.

Russell Johnson noted in his autobiography that the production crew enjoyed the challenge of building these props.

Johnson's brother Ollie " Dink " Johnson was also a noted musician and his sister Anita Gonzales was common-law wife or perhaps married to Ferdinand " Jelly Roll " Morton during his stays in California.

The North Wilkesboro Speedway was the first NASCAR ( National Association of Stock Car Auto Racing ) track ; it held its first race on May 18, 1947 As noted above, Wilkes County native and resident Junior Johnson was one of the early superstars of NASCAR, as well as a legendary moonshiner.

F. W. Kent County Park is located just to the west of Tiffin, and is a popular site for outdoor recreation in Johnson County, being noted for its lake, camping facilities, resident whitetail deer herd and wild turkeys, and its cross-country ski trails through rolling acres of oak and hickory forest.

Early schools established in Macon were Johnson College ( Methodist ), 1866 ; St. James Academy and St. Agnes Hall ( Episcopal ), 1875 and 1884 ; outstanding Blees Military Academy, 1899 ; and south at College Mound, noted McGee ( Presbyterian ) College, 1853.

Nicholson, state senator, U. S. Senator, and Chief Justice of the Tennessee Supreme Court ; Sterling Marlin, NASCAR driver ; Dr. Marion Dorsett, inventor of the serum to control hog cholera ; Fran McKee, first female line officer to hold the rank of rear admiral in the U. S. Navy ; Lyman T Johnson, civil rights movement ; and Raphael Benjamin West former Nashville mayor and Civil Rights ally, noted architect James Edwin Ruthven Carpenter, Jr. and John Harlan Willis, United States Navy sailor and a recipient of the Medal of Honor — for his actions during the Battle of Iwo Jima in World War II.

Tracks written by Matt Johnson, except where noted.

As the archaeologist Matthew Johnson noted, " Postprocessualists suggest that we can never confront theory and data ; instead, we see data through a cloud of theory.

As Johnson noted, " Many postprocessualists claim that we should reject the whole opposition between material and ideal in the first place.

Johnson is also noted for appointing Nancy Hodges as the first female Speaker in the Commonwealth.

After Newt Gingrich yanked funding for the group in 1995, Burton joined fellow congressmen John Doolittle of California, Ernest Istook of Oklahoma and Sam Johnson of Texas in refounding it as the Conservative Action Team.

The distribution of Crédit Mobilier shares of stock by Congressman Oakes Ames along with cash bribes to congressmen took place during the Andrew Johnson presidency in 1868.

I let up on the accelerator, only to gradually reach again the 60 m.p.h. which would, I hoped, overhaul Herry and the blonde, and as there were cars whose drivers apparently had something more important to catch than had I, Mrs. Major Roebuck settled down to practicing on Corporal Johnson the kittenish wiles she would need when making her duty call on Colonel and Mrs. Somebody in Sante Fe.

Johnson never would have believed she had a son that age.

Among his staff was Isham G. Harris, the Governor of Tennessee, who had ceased to make any real effort to function as governor after learning that Abraham Lincoln had appointed Andrew Johnson as military governor of Tennessee.

She bound Andrew as a boy as an apprentice tailor ; Johnson had no formal education but taught himself how to read and write, with some help from his masters, as was their obligation under his apprenticeship.

At this time Johnson built a larger home in Greeneville ( Eliza had given birth to another son and his mother had moved in with them following the death of his stepfather.

Johnson had been so obsessed with the measure that he was said to be " a little cracked on the subject ".

As he had in the past, Johnson steadfastly objected to unnecessary spending by the government, including the military and internal improvements ; he demonstrated he still had no desire to please the conservatives in his party or the opposition.

Though his party won the governor's race and control of the legislature, Johnson still had to overcome considerable opposition from the conservatives in both parties.

In his first speech in Nashville, Johnson declared he had come back home with an olive branch in one hand and the Constitution in the other.

At his and Lincoln's inaugural ceremony on March 4, 1865, Johnson, who had been drinking with John W. Forney that morning, as well as the night before, gave a rambling speech and appeared intoxicated to many.

But Johnson, with the support of other officials including Seward, insisted that the states, not the federal government, had the right to address the issue of suffrage.

Johnson grew increasingly intransigent on this position, believing that the southern states had legally never left the Union.

Johnson recommended that black voting begin with black troops, those who could read and write, and those who had property of at least $ 200 or $ 250.

Johnson did not deal harshly with Confederate leaders, as he had earlier indicated he would ; he expanded his pardons to include those in the highest ranks of the Confederacy, including their Vice-President, Alexander H. Stephens.

" Johnson said it was an invasion by federal authority of the rights of the states, it had no warrant in the Constitution and was contrary to all precedents.

The two projects which Johnson had most at heart were the speedy admission of the Southern senators and representatives to Congress and the relegation of the question of negro suffrage to the States themselves.

When it reconvened in January 1868, the Senate disapproved of his action, and reinstated Stanton, contending Johnson had violated the Tenure of Office Act.

Since Lincoln rather than Johnson had appointed Stanton, the defense maintained the president had not violated the Act.

Earlier amnesties, requiring signed oaths and excluding certain classes of people, had been issued by Lincoln and by Johnson.

Johnson resented what he had perceived as British sympathy toward the Confederacy and he ignored a series of armed incursions by Fenians ( Irish-American civil war veterans ) into Canada.