Religious Organizations – Seventh Day Adventists
Irene Morgan Kirkaldy (1917-2007)
Irene Amos Morgan Kirkaldy was a civil rights activist who won her 1946 U.S. Supreme Court case in Irene Morgan...
Eri L. Barr (1814-1864)
Eri L. Barr, the first Seventh-day Adventist minister of color, was born to free African American parents in Reading, Vermont,...
Charles Decatur Brooks (1930–2016)
“Image Ownership: Benjamin Baker” Charles Decatur (C.D.) Brooks, field secretary for the Seventh-day Adventist World Church, was born in Greensboro,...
Raphael Abraham Frank Mensah (1924-1990s)
Raphael Abraham Frank Mensah (1924-1990s), a schoolmaster and theologian, played a foundational role in bringing Mormonism to Ghana. Born in...
Eva Beatrice Dykes (1893-1986)
In 1921 Eva Beatrice Dykes became the first black woman in the United States to complete the required coursework for...
