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Commune
I don't think Zaraphath is a commune. I am not sure what the status was in the past, but it doesn't have the status of a commune today. For a commune people have to pool their resources and salaries. --Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) (talk) 23:40, 12 December 2009 (UTC)
Original research
The following lists the various educational organizations as being identical but the NJ registry of schools does not recognize them as successor organizations with simple name changes. Someone may start many serial businesses but they are not identical, nor should they be in the same article. The material is appropriate in the article on the church, but you cant identify them as the same with just a name change, if NJ doesn't recognize them as the same:
The Pillar of Fire Church, founded by Bishop Alma White, opened the Zarephath Bible Training School, in Zarephath, NJ in 1908.[1] It was designed as a training institute for missionaries, educators, and preachers.
It was followed in 1917 by Alma White College, which according to The Harvard Crimson, received funding from the KKK, allowing it to become "the second institution in the north avowedly run by the Ku Klux Klan to further its aims and principles." [2][3][4][5][6] In 1927 the college conferred the first Doctor of Divinity degrees to Rev. A. M. Young, King Kleagle or chief recruiter for the New Jersey Ku Klux Klan, and to Arthur Kent White, Alma's son. [7] Alma White College closed in 1978. Also operating on the campus was Zarephath Bible Seminary and Zarephath Bible Institute.
Alma White College served as the predecessor to Somerset Christian College, the name the organization took on March 23, 2001.
References
- ^ "Somerset Christian College". Somerset Christian College. Retrieved 2009-07-05.
Somerset Christian Academy opened its doors in 1908 as a grammar school in Zarephath, New Jersey. The success of the school led to the opening of Zarephath ...
- ^ "Klan Buys College Close to Princeton". The Harvard Crimson. October 31, 1923. Retrieved 2009-07-06.
Bishop Alma White, the founder of the Pillar of Fire Church, and an author of various religious works, is President of the institution under the new regime. In an interview for the Princetonian today Bishop White deplored the present indifference of the undergraduate to the Klan and predicted that in the near future "it will sweep through the intellectual student classes as through the masses of the people."
{{cite news}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter:|coauthors=(help) - ^ Neal, Lynn (June 2009). "Christianizing the Klan: [[Alma White]], [[Branford Clarke]], and the Art of Religious Intolerance". Church History: Studies in Christianity and Culture.
White's words and Clarke's imagery combined in various ways to create a persuasive and powerful message of religious intolerance.
{{cite journal}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter:|coauthors=(help); URL–wikilink conflict (help) - ^ Kandt, Kristen (2000). "Historical Essay: In the Name of God; An American Story of Feminism, Racism, and Religious Intolerance: The Story of [[Alma Bridwell White]]". American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy and the Law.
Alma White and the Pillar of Fire were unique, however, in their public alliance with the Ku Klux Klan. In fact, the Pillar of Fire was the only religious group to publicly associate itself with the Klan.
{{cite journal}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter:|coauthors=(help); URL–wikilink conflict (help); Unknown parameter|cite=ignored (help) - ^ Blee, Kathleen (1991). Women of the Klan.
Bishop White's transformation from minister to Klan propagandist is detailed in voluminous autobiographical and political writing. [Bishop] White's anti-Catholic, anti-Semitic, and racist message fit well into the Klan's efforts to convince white Protestant women that their collective interests as women....were best served by joining the Klan.
{{cite book}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter:|coauthors=(help) - ^ White, Alma (1928). [[Heroes of the Fiery Cross]]. The Good Citizen.
I believe in white supremacy.
{{cite book}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter:|coauthors=(help); URL–wikilink conflict (help) - ^ "Zarepath Colony Institution in New Jersey Confers High Honors for First Time". New York Times. 1927-06-19. Retrieved 2009-05-07.
For the first time in its history Alma College, at Zarepath, near Bound Brook, N.J., conferred the degree of Doctor of Divinity during its commencement exercises, which took place last week.
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