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3 unusual facts about Thomas Wyatt Turner


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Thomas Wyatt Turner (1877–1978), American civil rights activist, biologist and educator

Thomas Wyatt Turner

In 1925, Turner founded the Federated Colored Catholics (FCC), an organization that he said was "composed of Catholic Negroes who placed their services at the disposal of the Church for whatever good they were able to effect in the solution of the problems facing the group in Church and country".

Turner also was a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and of the American Society for Horticultural Science, both of which he was very active in.



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