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PBS

Pbs: This Far by Faith

For Students 9th - 10th
Follow the spiritual journey of African Americans as you move along a timeline of major events and eras. Excellent coverage of the importance of spiritualism, religions, and faith in the African American community. Major religious...
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Primary
National Humanities Center

National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: Africa, Making of African American Identity: V. 2

For Students 9th - 10th
Photographs and an address that illustrate the role Africa played in black identity in the late-nineteenth century. This article compares Rev. Henry McNeal Turner's "back to Africa" campaign with the Exoduster migration to Kansas led by...
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Georgia Humanities Council and the University of Georgia Press.

New Georgia Encyclopedia: Henry Mc Neal Turner (1834 1915)

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn biographical details about African American leader, minister, and political activist, Henry McNeal Turner, in this encyclopedia article from 2002.
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PBS

This Far by Faith: Henry Mc Neal Turner

For Students 9th - 10th
This PBS series page for This Far by Faith profiles Civil War-era African Methodist Episcopalian churchman Henry McNeal Turner.
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Primary
National Humanities Center

National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: The American Negro and His Fatherland

For Students 9th - 10th
Read excerpts from this speech given by Re.v. Henry McNeal Turner, a bishop in the AME church, who, by the late 1890s, supported the Back to Africa movement and felt that African Americans would have a better life in Africa.
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Black Past

Black Past: Turner, Henry Mc Neal (1834 1915)

For Students 9th - 10th
Discover interesting facts about political activist and minister, Henry Turner, who became the "first African American chaplain in the history of the United States Army."