Alexander Crummell

CTL-E-6208 · Person · clergy · 1819–1898

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Combined Graph record U-07404 · provenance: build store (JSON graph), record CTL-E-6208.

Alexander Crummell was a nineteenth-century Episcopal priest, missionary, scholar, and teacher born in New York City in 1819 to free Black parents. Denied admission to the Episcopal Church's General Theological Seminary because of his race, he studied privately and became an Episcopal minister at twenty-five; diocesan records place his ordination to the diaconate in 1842 and to the priesthood in 1844. From 1848 to 1853 he lectured and studied in England, graduating from Queens' College, Cambridge, in 1853, then took a faculty position at Liberia College in Monrovia and urged African American emigration to Liberia. Internal politics forced him to leave Liberia in 1872. Returning to Washington, D.C., he founded St. Luke's Episcopal Church, helped organize opposition to a segregated missionary district, taught at Howard University from 1895 to 1897, and in 1897 helped found the American Negro Academy as its first president.

Notes

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Relationships

• Howard University — affiliated with
  Crummell taught at Howard University from 1895 to 1897.

Sources

• Episcopal Diocese of New York — Black Presence: The Reverend Alexander Crummell (accessed 2026-10-16) — Founder of the American Negro Academy in 1897, denial by General Theological Seminary, ordination to diaconate 1842 and priesthood 1844, and early ministry. — https://blackpresence.episcopalny.org/person/the-reverend-alexander-crummell/ (primary source · build store)
• BlackPast.org — Alexander Crummell (1819–1898) (accessed 2026-10-16) — Birth in New York City in 1819 to free Black parents, Cambridge graduation 1853, Liberia College post, return in 1872, founding of St. Luke's, Howard teaching 1895–1897, American Negro Academy presidency, and death in Point Pleasant, New Jersey, in 1898. — https://blackpast.org/african-american-history/crummell-alexander-1819-1898/ (build store)

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