Address of Welcome Given at a Reception Tendered to the Men Who Have Returned from the Battle Front by the Men’s Progressive Club of the Fifteenth Street Presbyterian Church, April 24, 1919

Welcome address to Black WWI veterans urging them to press for equal rights at home after fairer treatment abroad. Calls for reporting abuses and continuing the struggle for justice.

Francis James Grimké was an American Presbyterian minister, theologian, and long-serving pastor of Fifteenth Street Presbyterian Church in Washington, D.C., known for his powerful preaching and nearly fifty years of faithful gospel ministry. Over the course of his ministry, Grimké exercised broad influence through preaching, writing, denominational participation, and the mentoring of younger ministers, leaving a lasting mark on American Presbyterian life in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

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