Proclamation
of
Martyrs for Humanity
Holy Angels Church, an African-American Catholic Church, promulgates a Declaration of Belief Proclamation, Martyrs for Humanity, for those individuals whose tireless work and effort throughout history has been for the benefit of humanity and in particular for the benefit of people of African, African-American, Afro-Caribbean, and Central and South American African heritage, generally at the cost of their lives. While not a canonization rite accompanied by the traditional Roman Catholic veneration and invocation, it is our sincere Declaration of Belief Proclamation that these individuals lives work was God's work and that they died in God's Divine Grace. Their souls are in Heaven with God.
Martyrs for Humanity
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Those un-named brave men, women and
children who lost their lives on the slave ships of the middle passage. |
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Those un-named brave men, women and children having arrived in the new world were systemically beaten to death for refusing to be enslaved. |
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Those un-named families of slaves: fathers, mothers and children who were torn asunder separately and sold, never to see each other again. |
Read: A Slave is Tortured
| Nat Turner | Slave and freedom fighter |
1800 - 1831 |
| Frederick Douglas | Slave, Abolitionist and freedom fighter |
1817 - 1895 |
| John Brown | Abolitionist and freedom fighter |
1800- 1859 |
| Denmark Vesey | Slave and freedom fighter |
1767- 1822 |
| Lewis Sheridan Leary | Abolitionist and freedom fighter |
circa 1840- 1859 |
| Shields Green | Slave and freedom fighter | circa 1840-1859 |
| John Copeland |
Abolitionist and freedom
fighter
Letter to his family before his execution. |
circa 1840-1859 |
| Martin Luther King, Jr., Ph.D. | Civil Rights Leader and Christian Martyr | 1929-1968 |
| W.E.B. DuBois, Ph.D. | Pan-Africanist, NAACP Founder |
1868-1963 |
| Patrick Francis Healy | Priest, first African-American to earn a Ph.D. |
1834-1910 |
| Steve Biko | Anti-Apartheid freedom fighter |
1946-1977 |
| Harriet Tubman | Slave and Anti-Slavery freedom fighter | circa 1820-1913 |
| Sojourner Truth | Slave and Anti-Slavery freedom fighter | circa 1797-1883 |
| Richard Allen |
Founded African
Methodist Episcopal Church 1760-1831 |
| Absalom Jones | Former Slave. Founded St. Thomas Episcopal Church. First Episcopal Priest. |
1746-1818 |
| Gabriel Prosser and his followers |
Led
slave revolt. Hanged with 34 of his followers. |
circa 1775-1800 |
| Booker T. Washington | Former Slave, Educator, Activist for African-American Rights | 1856-1915 |
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Four
Little Girls: Murdered at the bombing of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church, Birmingham,
Alabama Carol Robertson, Age 14 Cynthia Wesley, Age 14
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Three civil rights workers, two
Jewish and one African-American, murdered because of their race and religion
after going to investigate a fire at the Mount Zion Methodist Church in Sandtown,
Mississippi, circa June 21, 1964.
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| Medgar Evers | Civil Rights Advocate. Murdered. Shot in the back in his driveway, Jackson, Mississippi, June 12, 1963 | 1925-1963 |
| The Children of Soweto | Savagely beaten and murdered in the name of apartheid while the world did nothing. | June 16, 1976 |
| The Sharpsville Innocents | Fifty-six Africans 2/3s shot in the back by the South African Apartheid Police. The world did nothing. | March 22, 1960 |
| Augustus Tolson | Slave-African-American Priest |
1854-1897 |
| Pierre Toussaint | Haitian Revolutionary |
circa 1766-1853 |
| Fannie Lou Hammer | African-American Freedom Fighter |
1918-1977 |
| Sister Thea Bowman | First Black Woman to received Ph.D. in Theology from Boston College |
1937-1990 |
| Father Charles Uncles, SSJ | First Black Roman Catholic Priest ordained in U.S. 1891 No link available 2/9/2000
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1859-1933 |
| Dangerfield Newby | Member
of the raiding party at Harpers Ferry |
1815-1859 |
| Father Englebert Mveng | A priest from Cameroon, Africa. The February 1989 issue of Time magazine did a two page article on the resurgence of his work in the Catholic Church in Africa. However, on the night of April 22-23, 1995 an unknown assailant (s) brutally murdered the Reverend Englebert Mveng, a Jesuit priest, author, artist, and prominent Cameroonian historian, in his residence outside of Yaounde. The murder, in 1995, was only the most recent of several unsolved murders of clergy over the past several years. The police announced an investigation into the case, but at the end of 1995, no progress had been reported. Father Mveng's murder remains unsolved. The Government was widely criticized for not seriously pursuing an investigation into this and other church murders, leading to widespread speculation about government complicity. | Date of
Birth Unavailable at this time.
Date of Death, April 22-23, 1995. |
| Samuel Hammond (18) Delano Middleton (17) Henry Smith (18)
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Killed by the South
Carolina State Police, Orangeburg, South Carolina February 8, 1968 for participating in a demonstration to integrate a bowling alley.
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Dates of Birth
Circa 1950 and 1951 |
| Emmet Till
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Read: The Lynching of
Emmet Till http://www.upress.virginia.edu/books/metress.htm |
Date of Birth and
Death 1941-1955
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| Rosa Louise Parks |  Mother of the Civil Rights Movement |
Date of Birth and
Death February 4, 1913-October 24, 2005 |
