This georgian was a leader in the early civil rights movement; he became the first african-american president of morehouse college in 1906 and was a prominent leader in the naacp.

John Hope was the leading in the civil rights movement which led him to become the first African American president of Morehouse College.

religion played a major role in the american revolution by offering a moral sanction for opposition to the british--an assurance to the average american that revolution was justified in the sight of god. the revolution strengthened millennialist strains in american.