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Back to EpisodesRev. Leonard Smalls: A Parish of Prisoners
Episode 464
Published 8 months, 1 week ago
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ABC:LHS #083-2 Reverend Leonard Leland Smalls...
...was a Baptist minister who dedicated much of his life to prison ministry and community development. In 1956, he became the first Black minister certified as a prison chaplain in Pennsylvania. His political activism included a 1967 mayoral candidacy focused on consumer fraud issues.