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  2. William Saunders Crowdy - Wikipedia

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    William Saunders Crowdy (August 11, 1847 – August 4, 1908) was an American soldier, preacher, entrepreneur and pastor. He was also one of the earliest known Black Hebrew Israelites in the United States, he established the Church of God and Saints of Christ in 1896 after he claimed to have had visions telling him "That blacks were descendants of the twelve lost tribes of Israel".

  3. Black Judaism - Wikipedia

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    Black Judaism in North America is an umbrella of religious movements that developed in North America, particularly the American South by Black slaves prior to and following the American Civil War. Most commonly associated with this group are the Hebrew Israelites , who claim to be descended from the tribes of Israel , but otherwise are varied ...

  4. Black Hebrew Israelites - Wikipedia

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    A photograph of William Saunders Crowdy which appeared in a 1907 edition of The Baltimore Sun. The origins of the Black Hebrew Israelite movement are found in Frank Cherry and William Saunders Crowdy, who both claimed that they had revelations in which they believed that God told them that African Americans are descendants of the Hebrews in the Christian Bible; Cherry established the "Church ...

  5. African American–Jewish relations - Wikipedia

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    Black Hebrew Israelites are groups of people, mostly of Black American ancestry who are mainly situated in the Americas and claim to be the descendants of the ancient Israelites. [96] To varying degrees, Black Hebrews adhere to the religious beliefs and practices of both mainstream Judaism and mainstream Christianity , but they get most of ...

  6. Wentworth Arthur Matthew - Wikipedia

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    Wentworth Arthur Matthew (June 23, 1892 [1] [2] – December 1973), [3] a West Indian immigrant to New York City, was the founder in 1919 of the Commandment Keepers of the Living God, a Black Hebrew congregation. [4] [5] It was influenced by the pan-Africanism and black nationalism of Marcus Garvey from Jamaica. Matthew developed his ...

  7. Alliance of Black Jews - Wikipedia

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    The Alliance of Black Jews was an American organization that was started in Chicago, Illinois, in 1995 by a group of African Americans who self-identified as Jews and Black Hebrews. At the time, they claimed to have estimated that there were about 200,000 black Jews in the United States.

  8. Frank Cherry - Wikipedia

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    He taught that God, Jesus, Adam, and Eve were black [9] and established the Church of the Living God, the Pillar Ground of Truth for All Nations in 1886 which has served as a focal point of the modern Black Hebrew Israelite movement. [2] [3] After his death, he was succeeded as the church's leader by his son Prince Benjamin F. Cherry. [7]

  9. International Israelite Board of Rabbis - Wikipedia

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    The International Israelite Board of Rabbis is the oldest historically African American Rabbinical board in the United States, whose founders preserved synagogues in Black neighborhoods in New York City and Chicago, and whose teachings launched the spread of nonviolent Torah observance [1] among thousands of African-American Jewish and Black ...