Rachel Gallaher
Rachel Gallaher is an award-winning writer and editor living in Seattle, Washington. Her work has appeared in international publications, including Dwell, City Arts, Seattle, Seattle Homes & Lifestyles, Kinfolk, Surface, the Seattle Times, Alaska Airlines’ Beyond, University of Washington magazine, and the award-winning GRAY (where she currently serves as the deputy editor).
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Daniel Coker (1780-1846)
Daniel Coker (born Isaac Wright) was a writer, activist, and a founder of the African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church who...
Solomon Lightfoot “Elder” Michaux (ca. 1885-1968)
Solomon Michaux was a radio evangelist, entrepreneur, and founder of the Church of God Movement; he was also known as...
George Alexander McGuire (1866-1934)
George Alexander McGuire was a bishop and founder of the African Orthodox Church, as well as chaplain-general of the Universal...
Eliza [Sister Mary Magdalen] Healy (1846-1918)
Sister Eliza Healy was both an educator and noted first African American Mother Superior of a Catholic convent. Healy was...
Levi Jenkins Coppin (1848-1924)
Levi Coppin was an editor, educator, missionary and the 30th Bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church. Coppin was...
Wallace Fard (ca. 1891-1934)
Wallace Fard, also known as W. Farad Muhammad, the Prophet, was founder the first Temple of Islam which evolved into...
Henry Hugh Proctor (1868-1933)
Henry Hugh Proctor was an author, lecturer and a clergyman of the Congregational Church. Proctor was born on December 8,...
Reverdy Cassius Ransom (1861-1959)
Reverdy Cassius Ransom was a civil rights leader, editor and the forty-eighth bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church....
John Stewart (1786-1823)
John Stewart (also sometimes spelled Steward) was a missionary to the Wyandotte Indians of Ohio and founder of what is...
James Varick (1750-1827)
James Varick was the founder and first bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church. Varick was born to a...
