Sandy Frederick Ray (1898-1979) was a pastor of Baptist churches, a community leader, and a state legislator in Ohio. He served in the
Ohio House of Representatives
The Ohio House of Representatives is the lower house of the Ohio General Assembly, the state legislature of the U.S. state of Ohio; the other house of the bicameral legislature being the Ohio Senate.
The House of Representatives first met in ...
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The New York Public Library has a collection of his papers.
He was pastor of the Cornerstone Baptist Church in Brooklyn. He wrote the book ''Journeying through a Jungle'' published in 1979.
He was born in Texas. He was a friend of
Martin Luther King Jr.
Martin Luther King Jr. (born Michael King Jr.; January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968) was an American Baptist minister and activist, one of the most prominent leaders in the civil rights movement from 1955 until his assassination in 1968 ...
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List of African-American officeholders (1900–1959)
The following is a list of African-American holders of public office from 1900 to 1959. This period saw setbacks for African Americans following the Reconstruction era after "Redeemer" Democrats retook control of the South and restored white supre ...
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1898 births
1979 deaths
Christian religious leaders
State legislators of the United States
Members of the Ohio House of Representatives
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