We received the official notification that the Virginia Board of Historic Resources approved the Edgar Amos Love (1891-1974) highway marker at its meeting on December 11, 2014 in Richmond, VA.
The final text is as follows:
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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