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BLACK STARS Meet the black religious leaders who helpedshape the African American experience--from colonial to modern times Absalom Jones Richard Allen Jarena Lee Lemuel Haynes Peter Williams Sr. Peter Williams Jr. John Marrant Denmark Vesey Sojourner Truth Nat Turner Maria Stewart John Jasper Alexander Crummell Henry Highland Garnett Henry McNeal Turner Richard Henry Boyd Bishop C. M. "Sweet Daddy" Grace Vernon Johns Elijah Muhammad Howard Thurman Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Joseph E. Lowery Malcolm X Martin Luther King Jr. Andrew J. Young James L. Bevel John Lewis Prathia Hall Wynn Jesse L. Jackson Vashti Murphy McKenzie Fredrick J. Streets Al Sharpton Renita J. Weems T. D. Jakes