Harvey JohnsonProduct Details BN ID: 2940162313519 Publisher: Far West Travel Adventure Publication date: 05/28/2021 Sold by: Barnes & Noble Format: NOOK Book Sales rank: 1,067,797 File size: 297 KB About the Author Harvey Johnson (1843 -1923) a leading African Amrican pastor, activist, and longtime leader of the Union Baptist Church during the 19th century and early 20th century.In the 1880s, Harvey Johnson became one of the most important African American civil rights protectors. This was in the time where a wave of "redemption" came toward the South and the civil rights protections became lost. Some black people went to court, believing they had rights that shouldn't be taken away. Johnson formed a civil rights organization called the Mutual United Brotherhood of Liberty of the United States (MUBL). This organization, run by Johnson, pledged "to use all legal means within our power to procure and maintain our rights as citizens of this our common country."
Born a slave, Harvey Johnson completed four years of college and graduated from Washington, D. C.'s Wayland Seminary in 1868, with honors. He became the head of Baltimore Union Church in 1872. In 1888, that the degree of "Doctor of Divinity" was conferred upon him by the Richmond Theological Seminary. Read More Read Less