About Richard Henry Singleton
Lived 1865 – 1923 (aged 57–58). Richard Henry Singleton was an American priest and activist.
Rev. Richard Henry Singleton (September 11, 1865 – November 1923), also known as R. H. Singleton, was an American pastor and activist. He led the Big Bethel AME Church in Atlanta, Georgia. He was trustee of Morris Brown University and president of the local chapter of the NAACP.
Life and career Richard Henry Singleton was born on September 11, 1865, in Hilton Head, South Carolina. His parents were Celia (née Kettles) and Richard Singleton, they were farmers and had been enslaved just prior to his birth and the start of the reconstruction era.
Singleton spoke at the 1921 opening of Joyland Park, Atlanta's first amusement park for blacks.
Singleton died in November 1923, in Atlanta.
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American minister, activist (1865–1923)
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Richard Henry Singleton was born on 11 September 1865 in Hilton Head Island.
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