Alexander Crummell Biography

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NAME: Alexander Crummell
OCCUPATION: Educator, Scholar, Civil Rights Activist
BIRTH DATE: c. 1819
DEATH DATE: October 12, 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH: New York, New York
PLACE OF DEATH: Point Pleasant, New Jersey

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Alexander Crummell was an African-American scholar, abolitionist, and Episcopalian minister. He founded the American Negro Academy.

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Alfred Crummell was born in 1819 in New York, NY. He was denied admission to the General Theological Seminary of the Episcopal church because of his race, but he studied privately and became an minister in 1844. Crummell went to Liberia as a missionary and became a strong proponent of Liberian nationalism. He returned to the United States and founded the American Negro Academy. He died in 1898.