Alexander Crummell. Creation: 1870-1879. Photographer: Rice (Firm: Washington, D.C.). Collection: Cartes de visite. Photographs and Prints Division, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.
Alexander Crummell
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Alexander Crummell
African-American Episcopal priest ordained in the United States in 1842. Born in New York City in 1819. Studied at Cambridge University in England, supported by Abolitionists in the late 1840s. Worked 20 years in Liberia, founded in 1875 the first independent Black Episcopal church-St. Luke's Episcopal Church in Washington D.C. Co-founder of the American Negro Academy in Washington, DC, in 1897. Died in 1898. Honored with a feast day on the liturgical calendar of the Episcopal Church (USA) on September 10.
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