Portrait of Alexander Crummell (1819-98) in the President’s Lodge of Queens’ College Cambridge. “A leading figure in the movement for black rights, [he] was active in that cause at different times in the United States, Britain and Africa.” Mr Crummell sailed to England in 1847, attended Queens’ before moving to Liberia, “a nation newly-created specially for former slaves [where] he worked as schoolmaster, lecturer, priest and missionary.” "He returned to the United States in 1873 and was a minister in Washington DC...; in the year before his death he helped to found the American Negro Academy." "His considerable influence as a writer, teacher of moral ideals, and opponent of racial persecution is well recognised today in the United States." https://lnkd.in/gEt3Yzv …see more