Daniel Payne spent much of his life trying to defy the theory that black people were unfit for civilization. He was a bishop in the A.M.E. church, as well as an educator. He later became president of Wilberforce University in Ohio-the first black man to lead a college. Payne was born on February 23, 1811, […]

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