Sister Eliza Healy
Sister Eliza Healy was both an educator and noted first African American Mother Superior of a Catholic convent. Healy was born on a plantation near...
Category : Religion
Robert Thomas Hickman
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Robert Thomas Hickman, born enslaved in Missouri in 1831, is most noted for the group of slaves including his wife and young son, whom he...
James Varick
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The church founder, bishop, and abolitionist James Varick was born near Newburgh, New York, to a slave mother (manumitted when Varick was a small boy)...
Peter Williams Jr
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Peter Williams Jr. was an important figure in American history known for his role as a clergyman, abolitionist, and opponent of colonization. He was born...
Benjamin L. Hooks
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Benjamin Hooks was an executive director of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and is the first African American board member...
Barbara Harris
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Barbara Harris, in full Barbara Clementine Harris, (born June 12, 1930, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.), American clergywoman and social activist who was the first female bishop...
Prince Hall
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Hall supported the Revolution and may well have fought against the British. He emerged as a leader of Boston’s African-American community in the years after...
Henry Ossawa Tanner
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Henry Ossawa Tanner, (born June 21, 1859, Pittsburgh, Pa., U.S.—died May 25, 1937, Paris, France), an American painter who gained international acclaim for his depiction...
Rastafari
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Rastafari also spelled Ras Tafari, is a religious and political movement, that began in Jamaica in the 1930s and was adopted by many groups around...