In the 1850s, the future of American slavery seemed bright
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...
Author : joe bodego
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 (May 3, 1789 – February 19/26, 1854) was an American Baptist minister, educator, businessman, abolitionist, and Underground Railroad conductor. He founded the...