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Reverend Herbert H. Eaton
Reverend Herbert H. Eaton
Reverend Herbert H. Eaton

Reverend Herbert H. Eaton

1928 North Carolina - 2014 United States
BiographyReverend Eaton held numerous advanced degrees from numerous colleges and served as a pastor to multiple churches. He was also the successor to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. at the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama, a position he held until 1965. After this he became a pastor at the United Church of Christ in Chicago. Among his other positions he was an administrative assistant to the dean of the School of Religion at Howard University from 1957-1960, and in 1963 he was the chairman of the board of directors of the MIA. Eaton served in the United States Medical Corp during the Korean War and was an activist against the apartheid in South Africa.
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