Abraham Lincoln DeMond

Biography

Abraham Lincoln DeMond (June 6, 1867 – January 19, 1936) was an American minister and advocate for African-American emancipation in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. On January 1, 1900, at Dexter Avenue Baptist Church, he gave a speech, The Negro Element in American Life, which was his only published work. He was the first black graduate of the State Normal School at Cortland, New York now known as SUNY Cortland, and later studied theology at Howard University.

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