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He is most remembered for being the first African American Vice President of the General Conference.
FL Peterson
100
Eldest daughter of Frederick Douglass, she converted to Seventh-day Adventism in the 1890s and was a member of Washington, D.C.'s First Church.
Rosetta Douglass Sprague
100
The first surgeon to separate siamese twins. And happens to be a Seventh-day Adventist.
Doctor Ben Carson
100
While he was a member of the Nation of Islam for many years of his life, his mother was a Seventh-day Adventist and raised him in the church for a portion of his childhood.
Malcolm X
100
He was a member of the Little Rock Nine, the nine African-American students who desegregated Little Rock Central High School in 1957. The world watched as they braved constant intimidation and threats from those who opposed integration of the formerly all-white high school.
Terrence Roberts
200
For 11 years he served as President of the North American Division of the Seventh-day Adventists, the first African-American to hold that post.
CE Bradford
200
First Black woman missionary to India.
Anna Knight
200
He, a Seventh-day Adventist minister was elected the 62nd chaplain of the United States Senate on June 27, 2003, becoming the first African American to hold the position.
Admiral Barry Black
200
This Famed basketball star is noted saying that during his childhood, his mother converted to Adventism. While he, his siblings, and his father did the same for a short time, he, his brothers, and his father went back to Baptism.
Earvin "Magic" Johnson
200
During the late 1800s this magazine, originally called the Gospel Herald, was a premier religious communication paper for Blacks in the South and the Mississippi Delta. It was designed to uplift the Black race, recently freed from slavery. Its content aimed to educate its readers in Bible topics, Christian living, the gospel, and practical living. One hundred years later it still aims to educate and uplift the Black race.
Message Magazine
300
He trailblazed black Seventh-day Adventism in Washington, D.C. He was an important and controversial figure who fought for black equality in the first decade of the twentieth century.
Lewis C. Sheafe
300
She was an abolitionist and woman's rights activist who lectured with Millerites and is believed to have accepted the Seventh-day Adventist message. She was buried in Battle Creek, Michigan, in the same graveyard in which Ellen G. White and other Adventist pioneers rest.
Sojourner Truth
300
She was the first black Seventh-day Adventist to practice medicine. Beginning in 1901, when she resided in Birmingham, Alabama, she was the sole black female physician practicing in the city.
Dr. Lottie Blake
300
Though now known as a devout Muslim, this famous rapper was born to Seventh-day Adventist parents.
Busta Rhymes
300
Refused to give up her bus seat in 1944 led to outlawing of segregation in interstate busing
Irene Morgan
400
Like his close friend Langston Hughes and their fellow writers in the Harlem Renaissance, he explored African-American experience in a wide variety of genres. As a poet, novelist, historian, anthologist and archivist, he enriched and preserved black cultural heritage.
Arna Bontemp
400
First Black Master Guide
Eva G. Strother
400
He becomes first black, ordained SDA minister in 1889. He was one of the major pioneers in the black work, founding at least 6 churches: Edgefield, Louisville, bowling Green, New Orleans, Nashville, and Birmingham. He also was the first to call for Black Conferences.
Charles Kinney
400
This childhood Actress of Housewives of Atlanta fame may be a born-again Christian of a different denomination, but during her youth, she attended Seventh-day Adventist churches with her mother.
Kim Fields
400
Before his quest for justice in the 1955 slaying of Emmett Till, he led massive rallies and successful boycotts for equal rights in rural Mississippi.
T.R.M. Howard
500
He was an African-American civil rights leader and union organizer in Alabama who played a crucial role in organizing the landmark Montgomery Bus Boycott there in 1955.
Edgar Daniel Nixon
500
Throughout the span of her life, she maintained friendships with African Americans, kept correspondence with them, lodged at their houses, spoke at black churches and schools, and raised thousands of dollars for programs for blacks.
Ellen White
500
She is a National Hot Rod Association Pro Stock Motorcycle drag racer and the first woman of color to win a National title in the sport. She is of American, Mexican and Jamaican descent. Her father Gene was closely involved with bikes and bike racing and she began riding herself at age seven.
Peggy Llewellyn
500
Though he was known as a Jehovah's Witness before his death in 2016, the famed musician was raised Seventh-day Adventist.
Prince
500
In 1910 he argued in the Supreme Court case against the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad for desegregation of railroad coaches after he was removed by force to the Colored coach in spite of his first class ticket from Washington D.C. to Lexington.
James Alexander Chiles