William Jernagin
Encyclopedia
William Jernagin was an African American
Baptist
pastor and Pan African activist.
The National Race Congress selected Jernagin to attend the Paris Peace Conference
and the First Pan African Congress in 1919.
African American
African Americans are citizens or residents of the United States who have at least partial ancestry from any of the native populations of Sub-Saharan Africa and are the direct descendants of enslaved Africans within the boundaries of the present United States...
Baptist
Baptist
Baptists comprise a group of Christian denominations and churches that subscribe to a doctrine that baptism should be performed only for professing believers , and that it must be done by immersion...
pastor and Pan African activist.
The National Race Congress selected Jernagin to attend the Paris Peace Conference
Paris Peace Conference
Paris Peace Conference may refer to:* Paris Peace Conference, 1919, negotiated the treaties ending World War I* Paris Peace Conference, 1946 July 29 to October 15, 1946See also...
and the First Pan African Congress in 1919.
Texts
- Jernagin, W.H., Waters, A.H. & Gordon L. T. (1930) 'Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History Held in Washington D.C., October 27-31, 1929' in The Journal of Negro History, Vol. 15, No. 1 (Jan., 1930), pp. 1-13