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Historical Marker Honors Civil Rights Activist
Posted: Wednesday 6:33PM, Jan 14, 2015
HARRISONBURG, Va. (WHSV)-- You'll soon notice a new historical marker in Harrisonburg. The marker will honor civil rights activist, Edgar Amos Love, who was born in Harrisonburg.
The marker will look similar to this one that is on Court Square. It will be placed at John Wesley United Methodist Church on the corner of Sterling and Effinger Streets. Love was a bishop and helped to desegregate the Methodist church. He was also one of the founders of the first fraternity at a historically black college, Omega Psi Phi, the local James Madison University chapter of that fraternity...Beta Delta Delta. Believes love is someone who deserves to be honored.
"This is a very important marker and an important thing in history," said Xavia Gary, a Beta Delta Delta member. "He was a member of the Harrisonburg community, his father was a reverend. He became a bishop and he served the community as well."
http://www.whsv.com/home/headlines/Historical-Marker-Honors-Civil-Rights-Activist-288585871.html?device=phone&c=y
Posted: Wednesday 6:33PM, Jan 14, 2015
HARRISONBURG, Va. (WHSV)-- You'll soon notice a new historical marker in Harrisonburg. The marker will honor civil rights activist, Edgar Amos Love, who was born in Harrisonburg.
The marker will look similar to this one that is on Court Square. It will be placed at John Wesley United Methodist Church on the corner of Sterling and Effinger Streets. Love was a bishop and helped to desegregate the Methodist church. He was also one of the founders of the first fraternity at a historically black college, Omega Psi Phi, the local James Madison University chapter of that fraternity...Beta Delta Delta. Believes love is someone who deserves to be honored.
"This is a very important marker and an important thing in history," said Xavia Gary, a Beta Delta Delta member. "He was a member of the Harrisonburg community, his father was a reverend. He became a bishop and he served the community as well."
Full Text that will be on marker:
Edgar Amos Love (1891-1974)
Edgar
Amos Love, son of a Methodist minister, was born in Harrisonburg in
1891. On 17 Nov. 1911, while a student at Howard University, he
co-founded Omega Psi Phi, the first fraternity established at a
historically black college. The organization later expanded beyond the
United States. Ordained a minister in the Methodist Episcopal Church,
Love served overseas as an army chaplain during World War I. He became a
bishop in 1952 and worked to desegregate the church. Dedicated to
social justice, he advocated nonviolent protest against discrimination
and helped lead the Southern Conference Educational Fund, an interracial
civil rights organization.
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