Grace, Charles Emmanuel (25 January 1881–12 January 1960), African American religious personality, was born, probably as Marcelino Manuel da Graca, in Brava, Cape Verde Islands, of mixed Portuguese and African ancestry, the son of Manuel de Graca and Gertrude Lomba. In the charismatic church that he founded and headed, however, he managed to transcend race by declaring, “I am a colorless man. I am a colorless bishop. Sometimes I am black, sometimes white. I preach to all races.” Like many other Cape Verdeans, Grace immigrated to New Bedford, Massachusetts, around the turn of the century and worked there and on Cape Cod as a short-order cook, a salesman of sewing machines and patent medicines, and a cranberry picker....
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Grace, Charles Emmanuel "Daddy" (25 January 1881–12 January 1960), religious personality
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Rockefeller, David (12 June 1915–20 Mar. 2017), financier and philanthropist
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Rockefeller, David (12 June 1915–20 Mar. 2017), financier and philanthropist, was born in New York City to John D. Rockefeller, Jr., a corporate executive who was the son of the oil billionaire John D. Rockefeller, and to Abby Greene Aldrich, an art expert who was the daughter of the Rhode Island senator ...
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Williams, Eleazar (1789?–28 August 1858)
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Eleazar Williams. Reproduction of a painting by Charles Loring Elliott. Courtesy of the Library of Congress (LC-USZ62-97676).
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Williams, Eleazar (1789?–28 August 1858), Native-American missionary and pretender to the throne of France
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Williams, Eleazar (1789?–28 August 1858), Native-American missionary and pretender to the throne of France, was born at Sault St. Louis, present-day Caughnawaga, on the south side of the St. Lawrence River opposite Montreal, Quebec, Canada, the son of Thomas Williams or Tehorakwanekin, a mixed-blood Indian, and Mary Ann Kenewatsenri, who was three-fourths Indian. Eleazar (or Lazare) Williams was the great-grandson of ...
