While in Washington, Johnson started coaching high school athletes at St. Albans School, where he started in 1965 as coach, athletic director and teacher of cultural anthropology and history. Johnson got the job at St. Albans when, as a community organizer, he confronted the headmaster, the late Charles S. Martin, and objected that he was running “an all-white school in a black town.” To the retort "What was his solution?", Johnson replied, "I am the solution.".https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/under-brooks-johnsons-tutelage-david-oliver-clears-every-hurdle/2011/05/21/AGN5shNH_story_1.html "Under Brooks Johnson’s tutelage, David Oliver clears every hurdle", Amy Shipley, The Washington Post, June 9, 2011.
