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Throughout its 12-year history, Harlem Academy was the only Seventh-day Adventist high school operated on behalf of African Americans.
Roland R. Hegstad, editor of Liberty magazine for 35 years (1959-1994), was a leading Adventist voice for religious freedom and separation of church and state.
Joshua V. Himes, minister and radical reformer, became “the principal promoter, manager, and financier”1 of the Second Advent or Millerite movement of the 1840s and figured prominently in two denominations that emerged out of that movement.
William H. and Sadie M. Holden ministered together in the United States for more than 40 years. For many of those years, he served as a conference president and she as a conference departmental director.
James H. Howard was a federal government clerk, physician, pioneer of Seventh-day Adventism in Washington, D.C. and eloquent opponent of racial segregation in the church.
The Inter-Mountain Conference was created in 1916 when the Utah Conference, part of the Pacific Union Conference, merged with the Western Colorado Conference, which had been part of the Central Union Conference. During its first four years of operation, the new conference, its territory comprised of the state of Utah, Colorado west of the Continental Divide, and San Juan County, New Mexico, was part of the Pacific Union. E. A Curtis was appointed president by the Pacific Union Conference committee. The conference office was located in Grand Junction, Colorado.
Valarie Justiss-Vance was a social worker, educator, and activist who helped lead efforts to improve race relations in the Seventh-day Adventist Church.
Jacob Justiss was an influential pastor, educator, and historian of black Adventism.
Andrew Kalstrom was the local elder of the first Seventh-day Adventist church organized in Washington, D.C., and a leading voice for the congregation’s commitment to interracial fellowship and equality at a time when segregation was becoming more deeply entrenched and racial prejudice worsening in American society.
Florence M. Kidder began teaching at a Seventh-day Adventist school in 1903 and continued teaching in church schools for 65 consecutive years until her death in 1967.
W. T. Knox, treasurer of the General Conference (1909-1922) and the first president of the Pacific Union Conference (1901-1904), was noted for administrative acumen in fostering the development of organizational structures and institutions that would shape Adventist life into the 21st century.
Marvin E. Loewen served as a pastor-evangelist and administrator in China, the Philippines, and the United States, and as director of Department of Public Affairs and Religious Liberty at the General Conference.
Joe Lutcher, a nationally-renowned jazz saxophonist and band leader, became a Seventh-day Adventist in 1953 and thereafter put his “converted saxophone” to use on behalf of evangelism and societal uplift.
Joseph Marsh was a leading Christian Connection minister and editor who threw his influence behind the Millerite movement and figured prominently in the struggle of Second Advent believers to reformulate their faith after 1844. In that process, he became a leading proponent of a distinctive form of millennialism called the “Age to Come” teaching. Adherents of this doctrine eventually formed the Church of God General Conference (Abrahamic Faith).
Lilakai (Lily) Neil was the first Navajo to become a Seventh-day Adventist and the first woman to become a member of the Navajo Nation Council.
David Paulson was a medical missionary physician and social reformer who, with his wife, Dr. Mary Wild Paulson, led an array of humanitarian endeavors in Chicago and founded Hinsdale Sanitarium in the city’s western suburbs.
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Mary Wild Paulson, M.D., and her husband, David Paulson, M.D., co-founded Hinsdale Sanitarium near Chicago and led a multi-faceted work on behalf of the city’s poor and disadvantaged.
Peter Gustavus Rodgers, evangelist and pastor, was one of Adventism’s most effective spokespersons in America’s black urban communities during the first four decades of the twentieth century and a leading voice in the struggle for black equality within the church.
K. C. Russell, evangelist and conference president, was a prominent leader in Adventist work for religious liberty and in its urban evangelistic initiatives during the first two decades of the 20th century.
Isaac Sanborn was a pioneer minister who helped establish Seventh-day Adventist work in Wisconsin and took part in the organization of the General Conference in May 1863.