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TIL Sarah Rector was an African-American girl who became so rich she was declared white

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e0AKg TIL James Pike the Bishop of California from 1958-1966 was an early proponent of the ordination of women, racial desegregation, and the acceptance of LGBT people within mainline churches.
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