WILLIAM HENRY JERNAGIN
Rev. William Henry Jernagin, born on October 13, 1869, in Mashulaville, Mississippi, was a prominent Baptist minister, civil rights advocate, and organizer of the Washington...
Category : Religion
Prathia Hall Wynn
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Prathia Laura Ann Hall Wynn (January 1, 1940 – August 12, 2002) was an influential American civil rights activist, womanist theologian, ethicist, preacher, and educator. She...
Dexter Avenue Baptist Church Montgomery Alabama
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In 1954, Martin Luther King began his first full-time pastorship at Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama. While at Dexter, King became president of...
EBENEZER BAPTIST CHURCH, ATLANTA, GEORGIA
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Founded in 1886 by Pastor John Andrew Parker, a freedman, Ebenezer Baptist Church of Atlanta, Georgia had only 13 members and no church building upon...
Lynching Preachers
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The Role of Religion and Racial Violence in America’s Lynching Era: How black pastors resisted Jim Crow and white pastors incited racial violence. Between 1883...
How the King James Bible Came to Be
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Precisely 451 years after the June 19, 1566, birth of King James I of England, one achievement of his reign still stands above the rest:...
William Decker Johnson
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William Decker Johnson was the 42nd Bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church and founder of Johnson Home Industrial College in Archery, Georgia. Born...
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...