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Waitstill Hastings Sharp (1 May 1902 – 25 February 1983) was an American Unitarian minister who was involved in humanitarian and relief work in Czechoslovakia and southern Europe in 1939 and 1940, just before and during World War II.
Mary Elizabeth Sharpe (née Evans; October 23, 1884 – April 4, 1985) was an American philanthropist, businesswoman, and self-taught landscape architect who is known for her work on Brown University's campus in Providence, Rhode Island.
Martha Ingham Dickie Sharp Cogan (April 25, 1905 – December 6, 1999) was an American Unitarian who was involved in humanitarian and social justice work with her first husband, a Unitarian minister, Waitstill Sharp, and others of her denomination, and so helped hundreds of refugees, including Jews, to escape Nazi persecution, through relocation and other efforts.
It had been 10 months since Samuel Sharpe Jr. spent every night in a warm bed with a roof over his head. The choice was deliberate. Sharpe, 43, wanted to live among Milwaukee's unhoused population ...
American civil rights activist, Baptist minister, leader of the civil rights movement, and close friend and mentor of Martin Luther King Jr. He collaborated with King and E. D. Nixon to create the Montgomery Improvement Association, co-created and was an executive board member of SCLC; led the Poor People's Campaign in Washington, D.C., as well ...
The death of a Myrtle Beach area pastor’s wife has received national media attention. The 30-year-old, whose husband, John-Paul Miller, leads the Solid Rock Church in Market Common, was found ...
Sharpe was born in Rock Church, Cecil County, Maryland, in 1742. He was the son of Thomas Sharp, Jr, and his wife, Elizabeth, of Maryland. He pursued classical studies and law. He was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina in 1763. He married Catherine Reese in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina on May ...
Howard Leander Barnett, 56, who already served a prison term for the assault of Emanuel Lee Northe Jr., 61, pleaded no contest Aug. 7 to second-degree murder for Northe's death 25 years later.