Gregory Lee Johnson

Activist, Person

1956 –

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Who is Gregory Lee Johnson?

Gregory Lee "Joey" Johnson is an American revolutionary Communist activist whose burning of the flag of the United States in a political demonstration during the 1984 Republican National Convention in Dallas, Texas, in violation of a Texas law prohibiting flag desecration, led to his role as defendant in the landmark United States Supreme Court case Texas v. Johnson.

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1956
Richmond
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on July 23, 2013

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