| 词条 | Henry H. Proctor |
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Proctor was born to parents who were former slaves, and he dug ditches and preached sermons to pay for his degree from Fisk University, graduating in 1891.[2] In 1894, he received a Bachelor of Divinity degree from Yale University and was ordained into the Congregational ministry. Proctor became pastor of the First Congregational Church in Atlanta.[1] In 1903, Proctor joined George Washington Henderson, president of Straight University, a black college in New Orleans, to found the National Convention of Congregational Workers Among Colored People, and Proctor became its first president. In 1904, Clark University awarded Proctor a Doctor of Divinity degree. After the Atlanta Race Riot in 1906, Proctor and a white attorney worked together to quell remaining tensions and formed the Interracial Committee of Atlanta.[1] In the church, Proctor provided amenities lacking in the black community such as a library, a kindergarten, an employment bureau, a gymnasium, a ladies’ reading parlor, a music room, counseling services, and a model kitchen and sewing room for girls. He also helped open the first housing facility for young employed black women. Proctor was a strong believer in self-improvement.[1] Proctor also founded the Atlanta Colored Music Festival Association, with concerts attended by both races, segregated but under one roof, believing that music could quell racial animosity.[3] This festival continues to the present day as the Atlanta Music Festival. In 1919 after World War I, Proctor ministered to black American troops in Europe. Afterwards he led the Nazarene Congregational Church in Brooklyn, the place where Proctor lived the rest of his life. He died in 1933 of blood poisoning.[1] External links
References1. ^1 2 3 4 "Proctor, Henry Hugh (1868-1933)", Blackpast.org {{Atlanta history}}{{Atlanta}}{{authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Proctor, Henry H.}}2. ^{{cite book|last=Culp|first=Daniel Wallace|title=Twentieth century Negro literature; or, A cyclopedia of thought on the vital topics relating to the American Negro|year=1902|publisher=J.L. Nichols & Co.|location=Atlanta|page=316|url=https://archive.org/stream/twentiethcentury00culp#page/n459/mode/1up}} 3. ^"Atlanta Colored Music Festival Association", New Georgia Encyclopedia 11 : African-American history in Atlanta|African-American Christian clergy|American Christian clergy|Writers from Atlanta|American Congregationalist ministers|1868 births|1933 deaths|Yale Divinity School alumni|Fisk University alumni|People from Fayetteville, Tennessee|People from Brooklyn |
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