Did you know that many of the great African-American leaders of the 20th century were not religious and some such as W.E.B Dubois explicitly rejected the personal god of Christianity? I remember being quite shocked as if there’s one very persistant stereotype about African Americans it is that they’re extremely religious.
Mike Estes of the Freethought Society of Greater Philadelphia discusses this hidden history in an interview with the Infidel Guy here (mp3) using the words of the people themselves as evidence.
h/t: Friendly Atheist
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