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Rev. Joy Joseph Johnson (died December 30, 1996) was an African-American Baptist minister and politician from North Carolina. Johnson was the second African-American member of the North Carolina House of Representatives since the passage of the Voting Rights Act. Johnson followed Rep. Henry E. Frye and served from 1971 to
Joseph W. Ellwanger Jr. (born February 18, 1934) is a Lutheran pastor, author, and civil rights activist. He was a key figure in the Civil Rights Movement in Birmingham, Alabama , and the only white religious leader included in strategy meetings with Martin Luther King Jr. [ 1 ]
Vincent Harding (1931–2014) – former African American Seventh-day Adventist pastor who became a Mennonite pastor; civil rights author, and associate of Martin Luther King Jr. who wrote the main draft of King's 1967 speech "Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence".
Will Johnson, the organization's worship pastor director, allegedly "confessed that he placed it there" and was fired. "Church leadership quickly notified the Livingston County Sheriff's Office ...
Amanchukwu was also among a group of Black pastors who spoke out in support of House Bill 2, the 2016 North Carolina law that required people in schools and other government buildings to use the ...
Joseph Andrew Johnson Jr. (1914 – September 29, 1979) was an African-American theologian. He was a professor of New Testament at the Interdenominational Theological Center and Fisk University , and a bishop of the Christian Methodist Episcopal Church in Mississippi and Louisiana.
Not far away, at Greater Christ Temple Church on South 19th and G Street, Pastor Prentis Johnson said his church is also actively involved in discussions to turn land it owns into low-income housing.
First African-American billionaire: Robert L. Johnson, founder of Black Entertainment Television (See also: 2002) First African-American woman billionaire: Sheila Johnson; First African-American broadcaster to call a Super Bowl: Greg Gumbel (Super Bowl XXXV)