Arnold Josiah Ford, born in Barbados, April 23, 1877, was the first black rabbi in the United States. He wrote many songs for the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Community League. He co-authored the Unversal Ethiopian Anthem and published the Universal Ethiopian Hymnal in 1920.
He traveled to Ethiopia with a group of black Jews in 1930 where they acquired 800 acres of land for uniting black Jews of the Diaspora with their counterparts already in Ethiopia.
Rabbi Ford died in Ethiopia in 1935.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnold_Josiah_Ford
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