Lester Johnson

Lester Johnson was a man who worked as a janitor who worked at the Queens Borough Mental Institution in the 1950s.

Johnson liked to talk to Benny Russell when Russell was being treated there and would read Benny's Benjamin Sisko stories. When Russell stopped writing, Johnson convinced him to return to his Sisko stories as their positive depiction of African-Americans offered hope and were needed due to current atrocities like children like Emmett Till being murdered and African-American churches being burned. (SS DS9 (The Dreamer and the Dream))