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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Born: 1881, Cape Verde Islands
Active since: 1919
Category: Religious & Spiritual Leadership
Best known for: Founding the United House of Prayer for All People

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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.

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