Arthur m brazier biography of michael
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In the s, Bishop Arthur M. Brazier marched through the streets of Chicago alongside the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. in the struggle against segregation in housing and schools.
He helped start The Woodlawn Organization to shepherd his South Side community through racial unrest and neighborhood upheaval.
A spiritual leader as well, Bishop Brazier was Pentecostal pastor of the Apostolic Church of God in Woodlawn for more than 48 years, building a congregation of nearly 20, members before handing church leadership over to his son, the Rev.
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Bishop Brazier, 89, who influenced generations of pastors and parishioners and who was praised by President Barack Obama as “one of our nation’s leading moral lights,” died Friday, Oct. 22, at Northwestern Memorial Hospital, after a five-year struggle with prostate cancer, his family said.
A few thousand people filled the Apostolic Church of God on Friday night for a special service.
People hugged and cried as t