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“Let our posterity know that we their ancestors, uncultured and unlearned, amid all trials and temptations, were men of integrity.”

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Alexander Crummell

Alexander Crummell (March 3, 1819 - September 10, 1898) was a prominent black educator, theologian, and writer, dedicated to the cause of education and liberation for African Americans in the United States. more

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