RUFUS LEWIS PERRY

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rufus_L._Perry?fbclid=IwAR0coUbNqN5-g9fjUuAKWfluEPKubXPdrrN8xnnZl8y1EHzjJhIP5ylnj7o This remarkable Baptist preacher, journalist, organizer, and scholar preceded Dr. King, dying in 1895, but was a noted classicist, speaking, Greek, Latin, and Hebrew. Born a slave in 1834, in rural Tennessee, he acquired a Ph.D. in theology and several honorary degrees . His great 1893 book, THE CUSHITE, based on the Bible, ancient historians and ancient poets, from Noah to the present I am now reading and blessedly grasping as I move from marvel to marvel in foundational black history . Rufus Lewis Perry and his African Civilization Society both warrant acclaim