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Frank Cherry was the founder of the Church of the Living God, the Pillar Ground of Truth for All Nations, is born in North Carolina. He was also a self-declared prophet who in 1886 started a "black Jew" church in Chattanooga, Tenn., where he preached that white people were inherently evil and hated by God. -
William Saunders Crowdy, a former Baptist preacher, claims to have received a vision from God that he is a descendant of the ancient Israelites and that African Americans are the true descendants of the biblical Israelites. -
Crowdy founds the Church of God and Saints of Christ, which becomes one of the largest Black Hebrew Israelite groups. -
Ben Carter, a former member of the Nation of Islam, founds the Israelite School of Universal Practical Knowledge in New York City. -
A group of African Americans led by Ben Ammi Ben Israel emigrates from the United States to Liberia, where they establish the African Hebrew Israelite Nation of Jerusalem. -
The African Hebrew Israelites move from Liberia to Israel and settle in the town of Dimona. -
The Israelite Church of God in Jesus Christ, led by the controversial Bishop Yahweh ben Yahweh, gains notoriety for its militant rhetoric and criminal activities, including several murders. -
The African Hebrew Israelites are granted permanent residency status in Israel.
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A group of Black Hebrew Israelites is involved in a high-profile confrontation with a Native American activist and a group of high school students at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C.