Hundreds of mourners gathered at Missionary Baptist Church to honor Arthur Johnson who died Tuesday at 85. In the early 1950s, Johnson was executive director of the Detroit Branch of the NAACP, and he established the branch\'s Fight for Freedom Fund Dinner. Johnson held other positions, including deputy superintendent for school community relations for Detroit Public Schools, being the first African American to hold the position of assistant superintendent. He retired in 1995 as the vice president for university relations and professor of educational sociology at Wayne State University after 23 years.

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