Who is the Blessed Jonathan Myrick Daniels? Have you ever heard of him? Well, if you're an Episcopalian you have, because his Feast Day, August 14, just passed. He's a major hero of the civil rights movement, and he's...white.
He grew up in New Hampshire, the son of a physician, and served in the military before going on to Seminary, at the Episcopal Divinity School in Cambridge, Massachusetts with a zeal for Anglicanism and the civil rights of all persons.
Then, things took a turn. He found himself in a position to become a martyr, one of the the handfull of martyrs and "contemporary saints" of the Episcopal Church...
...over the fold...