Egbert Ethelred Brown (1875-1956) was a Unitarian minister from Jamaica who founded the Harlem Unitarian Church in 1920. He is known as the first Black person ordained to the Unitarian ministry.
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By Egbert Ethelred Brown
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Loyal to the Truth: Rev. Egbert Ethelred Brown on Why He Became a Unitarian MinisterEgbert Ethelred Brown, Mark Morrison-ReedIn this Skinner House excerpt, with an introduction by Mark Morrison-Reed, Brown, a Black man from Jamaica who founded the Harlem Unitarian Church in 1920, discusses ‘sharing with my people new truths as I discover them for myself.’