holidays
August 3,
Christian feast day: George Freeman Bragg, W. E. B. Du Bois (Episcopal Church)
George Freeman Bragg
George Freeman Bragg was a black priest, journalist, social activist and historian. The twelfth African American ordained as a priest in the Episcopal Church of the United States, he worked against racial discrimination and for interracial harmony, both within and outside of his church.
W. E. B. Du Bois
William Edward Burghardt Du Bois was an American sociologist, socialist, historian, and Pan-Africanist civil rights activist.
The Calendar of the Church Year
The Calendar of the Church Year is the liturgical calendar of the United States Episcopal Church. It is found in the 1979 Book of Common Prayer and in Lesser Feasts and Fasts, with additions made at recent General Conventions.