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Religion in Philadelphia: REL 0876 / HIST 0876: People

Philly People

Katherine Drexel

Ramona Africa

Bawa Muhaiyaddeen

Richard Allen

Charlotte Grimke

John Hostetler

Betsy Ross

Leon Sullivan

William Penn

Rebecca Gratz

Absalom Jones

Robert Purvis

Lucretia Mott

Russell Conwell

John Wanamaker

Robert Aitken

John Woolman

Wallace Muhammad

J. Gresham Machen

Benjamin Franklin

John Coltrane

Sun Ra

Tamanen

Benjamin Lay

Anthony Benezet

Franz Daniel Pastorius

Johannes Campanius Holm

Erik Bjork

Cristina Stalcop

Francis Asbury

Benjamin Rush

David Salisbury Franks

Henry Berkowitz

Johannes Kelpius

Christopher Witt

George Whitefield

Conrad Beissel

Jarena Lee

Joseph Priestly

William White

William Tennent

Gilbert Tennent

John Neumann

Francis Kenrick

Gayraud Wilmore

Paul Washington, Jr.

John MacNamee

Malcolm X

Father Divine

Can you identify these individuals?

Katherine Drexel   William Penn   Richard Allen      Rebecca Gratz

Leon Sullivan     John Wanamaker    Benjamin Rush               Malcolm X

Biography

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