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Henry Hugh Proctor (1868-1933)

The Reverend Henry Hugh Proctor was the first African American pastor of First Congregational Church in Atlanta, serving from 1894 until 1920. His dynamic leadership and efforts to improve race relations, especially after the 1906 Atlanta race riot, made him a key figure in the Social Gospel movement and a significant precursor of the civil rights movement.

Early Life

Proctor was born in rural Tennessee on December 8, 1868, to former Read more...

Frank Broadhurst (1925-2005)

Frank Broadhurst was born in North Carolina on March 30, 1925, and died December 11, 2005. In 1981 he retired to Read more...

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Judaism and Jews

Historian Ralph Melnick has written that "nearly everything one concludes from a study of Southern Jewry has its opposite that is equally true. . . . Nearly everywhere and in nearly everything some Jew has played a part. But it has been a margina...