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Variants
- Chavis, Benjamin Franklin, 1948-
- Chavis, Benjamin F. Jr.
Identifies LC/NAF RWO
Identifies RWO
Birth Date
- 1948-01-22
Has Affiliation
- Organization: Duke University
- Organization: Howard University
- Organization: United Church of Christ. Commission for Racial Justice
- Organization: National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
- Organization: Nation of Islam (Chicago, Ill.)
- Organization: National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America
Birth Place
- Oxford (N.C.)
Occupation
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Sources
- found: Myerson, M. Nothing could be finer, 1978 (subj.)introd. (Ben Chavis; Black activist, member of the Wilmington 10) ch. 1 (Rev. Benjamin Franklin Chavis, Jr.; b. 1/22/48)
- found: African American National Biography, accessed January 17, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database:(Chavis, Benjamin Franklin, Jr.; Benjamin Chavis-Muhammad; clergyman, civil rights activist, leader; born 22 January 1948 in Oxford, North Carolina, United States. He earned his BA from University of North Carolina at Charlotte, his master's of divinity from Duke University and his doctor of ministry from Howard University. He was appointed program director of United Church of Christ Commission for Racial Justice (UCC-CRJ) (1969). He became an executive director and CEO of United Church of Christ Commission for Racial Justice (1985), and vice president of National Council of Churches of the USA (1988), as well as executive director and CEO of NAACP (1993-1994). In 1997 he joined the Nation of Islam as regional minister)
- found: The transatlantic slave trade, 2024:ECIP title page (Dr. Benjamin F. Chavis Jr.) galley (Chavis is a senior adviser and former president of the Diamond Empowerment Fund, which supports higher education scholarships in Africa)
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Change Notes
- 1978-06-02: new
- 2024-06-05: revised
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