The Confederate States of America
The Confederate States of America was a collection of 11 states that seceded from the United States in 1860 following the election of President Abraham...
Author : joe bodego
Jefferson Finis Davis
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Jefferson Finis Davis, the first and only President of the Confederate States of America, was a planter, politician, and soldier born in Kentucky and raised...
In the 1850s, the future of American slavery seemed bright
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Southern slaveholders, like most Americans, before and since were in love with the future. In the decades before the Civil War, as the United States...
Harlem’s Ethiopian Jews
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Alexander Alland’s Ethiopian Hebrews (c.1940) is a series of photographs in the Jewish Museum collection that documents the interior lives of a community of black...
Rabbi Arnold Josiah Ford
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Rabbi Arnold Josiah Ford was born on April 23, 1877, in Bridgetown, Barbados, to Edward Thomas Ford and Elizabeth Augustine Ford. He claimed that his...
Rufus Jones
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Rufus Jones was a highly influential American Quaker. He was one of the founders of the American Friends Service Committee and an instigator of the...
Howard Thurman
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Howard Thurman, in full Howard Washington Thurman, (born Nov. 18, 1899, Daytona Beach, Fla., U.S.—died April 10, 1981, San Francisco, Calif.), American Baptist preacher and...
Rabbi Tiferet Berenbaum
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Rabbi Tiferet Berenbaum was eleven years old and a Brookline resident when someone in a supermarket handed her a brochure about Shabbat. A good student...
Rev. Angel Kyodo Williams
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Called “the most intriguing African-American Buddhist” by Library Journal, Rev. angel Kyodo Williams Sensei, is an author, maverick spiritual teacher, master trainer, and founder of...
John Berry Meachum
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John Berry Meachum was born into slavery in Goochland County, Virginia. His master took him to North Carolina and then Kentucky. Meachum learned several trades,...