Category: African-American Religious Notables

Categories: Religious Notables | African-American Notables

This category is designed for notable African-American religious persons who made an impressive contribution to the spiritual wealth and health of the African-American community, their local community, and/or the United States of America.

For WikiTree's purposes, a person is defined as "notable" if they meet the criteria to have an entry in Wikipedia or a similar biography resource, or have received a prestigious award or recognition.

This category will remain general, not to be broken down by denomination or role in the church.

This category is managed by the US Black Heritage Project in association with the Categorization Project. For assistance with this or related categories ask in G2G making sure to tag your question with both categorization and US Black Heritage.

John Brown 08 Sep 1817 Delaware, United States - 16 Mar 1893

George Dupee 27 Jul 1827 Gallatin, Kentucky, United States - 05 Sep 1897

Living Evans

Wesley Gaines 04 Oct 1840 Wilkes County, Georgia, United States - 12 Jan 1912

Elisha Green 1815 Bourbon, Kentucky, United States - 1893

Joseph Jones 15 Oct 1850 Lynchburg, Virginia, United States - 14 Oct 1922

George Liele 1750 Burke County, Virginia Colony - abt 1826

Harold Robert Perry 09 Oct 1916 Lake Charles, Calcasieu, Louisiana, USA - 17 Jul 1991

Adam Powell 05 May 1865 Martin's Mill on Maggodee Creek, Franklin County, Virginia - 12 Jun 1953

Holland Powell abt 31 Mar 1854 Middlesex County, Virginia, United States - abt 29 Dec 1924

John Stevenson 15 Aug 1835 Baltimore, Maryland, United States - 01 Oct 1898

Barnett Thoroughgood 07 Nov 1949 Virginia Beach, Virginia, United States - 05 Feb 2012

George (Unknown) Divine abt 1880 Maryland, United States - 10 Sep 1965

Samuel Williams 20 Feb 1912 Sparkman, Dallas, Arkansas, United States - 10 Oct 1970

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