Grace, Charles Manuel 'Daddy' (Marcelino Manuel da Graca)
1881-1960 · Contribution: 1919-1960
Religious leader; founder of the United House of Prayer
Founded the United House of Prayer for All People, building it into a financially self-sustaining Black religious denomination that preached to integrated congregations across the segregated South decades before the civil rights movement
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Quick facts
- Born
- 1881, Cape Verde Islands
- Active since
- 1919
- Category
- Religious & Spiritual Leadership
- Best known for
- Founding the United House of Prayer for All People
Impact on the world
Grace built a financially self-sustaining Black denomination with lasting institutional infrastructure and integrated worship at the height of Jim Crow, an unusual model of Black economic and religious independence.
Sources
- Encyclopedia.com
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