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- Charles_Johnson_(Negro_Leagues) comment "Charles Johnson (August 7, 1909 – June 17, 2006) was a baseball player in the Negro League who later pushed major league baseball to offer pensions to former Negro League players.Johnson also filed an anti-discrimination suit against Illinois Central Railroad in the mid-1960s after he was turned down for a special agent position. Johnson won the suit and became the first African American special agent.Johnson was born in Pine Bluff, Arkansas. At 15 he and his mother moved to Chicago.".