THE STRUGGLE TO FREE THE MINDS OF OUR PEOPLE!

OUR FIGHT IS TO FREE THE MINDS OF OUR PEOPLE

HIDDEN LEGACY: HEBREW ISRAELITES THE FORERUNNERS OF THE BLACK NATIONALISM. PART 1

1810 ISRAEL HILL: In Prince Edward County, Virginia. There, ex slave Israelites established farms, engaged in commerce navigated the Appomattox River, and became entrepreneurs. Israel Hill remained a vigorous black community into the twentieth century.

1836 QUEST OF NATIONHOOD: Martin Robison Delany (May 6, 1812 – January 24, 1885) was an African-American abolitionist, journalist, physician, and writer, arguably the first proponent of black nationalism; Martin Delany is considered to be the grandfather of Black nationalism. In 1835, Martin Delany became involved in black nationalist politics by attending the Negro Conference advocating for the creation of a “black Israelite Nation Proposing to Find land in East Africa and Settle there.

1886 THE PROPHET: Tennessee-born Prophet F. S. Cherry established the Church of God, a Israelite movement in Philadelphia. Cherry was a charismatic orator who was fluent and literate in Hebrew and Yiddish .His personal accounts depict a completely self-educated seaman and laborer who traveled the world until "the Lord touched him and appointed him a prophet," thus leading Cherry back to America to teach African Americans that "the true Jews are black and that Jesus was black." Attracting southern migrants, Cherry used the Talmud and the Old Testament to bolster his belief that Jews of the European Diaspora were impostors, and his followers were the true Israelites.

1886-99? MOORISH ZION TEMPLE:

Moorish Zionist Temple" in Brooklyn, New York, which was formed in 1886-99? by Rabbi Leon Richelieu. The Congregation of the Moorish Zionist Temple of the Moorish Jews in Harlem c.1929, Rabbi Israel Ben Newman. President Mordecai Herman later became a member of Marcus Garvey's Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA).