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Frank S Cherry (c. 1875-1963) was the founder and leader of one of the early

Black Hebrew Israelite
groups in the United States.

Biography

Little is known about Cherry's early and adult life, other than that he was born in the Southern United States. He did not go to school but educated himself in both Hebrew and Yiddish and worked as a sailor, during which he claims to have been declared a prophet. He was a 33rd Degree Scottish Rite Mason, and member of the Big Brothers organization.[1]

Cherry claimed to have a vision that

race war.[4][7]

Cherry was from the Deep South and worked on ships and railroads before taking over a religious congregation.[8] He taught that God, Jesus, Adam, and Eve were Black.[9]

He established the Church of the Living God, the Pillar Ground of Truth for All Nations in 1886.[2][3]

After his death, he was succeeded as the church's leader by his son Prince Benjamin F. Cherry.[7]

Shais Rishon, a Black Orthodox Jewish writer and activist, stated that Cherry was "a southern Baptist who never belonged nor converted to any branch of Judaism."[10]

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References

  1. ^
    ISBN 978-0-19-530173-1
    . Retrieved 2021-04-25.
  2. ^
    ISBN 9780817318246
    . One of these groups, Prophet Cherry's Church of the Living God, the Pillar and Ground of Truth is the oldest known Black Judaic sect. It was originally established in Chattanooga, Tennessee, in 1886. Prophet Cherry argued they were part of the original Israelite tribes chased from Babylonia (and, they claim, into Central and Western Africa where they were later sold into slavery) by the Romans in 70 CE.
  3. ^ a b c Butts, Jimmy (21 July 2017). "The Origin and Insufficiency of the Black Hebrew Israelite Movement". CRI. Toward the end of the nineteenth century, a man named Frank Cherry claimed to receive a vision through which God told him to present the message that African Americans are the true descendants of the biblical Hebrews. This eventually resulted in the establishment of the Church of the Living God, the Pillar Ground of Truth for All Nations in Chattanooga, Tennessee, around 1886.
  4. ^ a b "History of Hebrew Israelism". Southern Poverty Law Center.
  5. ISBN 9781443823081
    . The first was the Church of the Living God, the Pillar Ground of Truth for All Nations founded by F.S. Cherry in 1886 in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Cherry preached that Adam, Eve, and Jesus were black and that African Americans lost their Hebrew identity during slavery. Later, William S. Crowdy founded the Church of God and Saints of Christ in 1896 in Lawrence, Kansas. Crowdy taught that blacks were heirs of the lost tribes of Israel, while white Jews were descendants of inter-racial marriages between Israelites and white Christians.
  6. ISBN 9780253004086
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  7. ^
    ISBN 9780313050787
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  8. ISBN 9780674071506
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  9. ^ Baer, Hans A.; Jones, Yvonne (April 10, 1992). African Americans in the South: Issues of Race, Class, and Gender. University of Georgia Press. p. 130 – via Internet Archive. prince benjamin f. cherry.
  10. ^ "A Case of Mistaken Identity: Black Jews & Hebrew Israelites". TribeHerald.com. 16 August 2020. Retrieved 2022-04-24.

Further reading

  • Black Gods of the Metropolis; Negro Religious Cults of the Urban North by Arthur Fauset, University of Pennsylvania Press, 1944
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