Father Divine and the World War II War on Drugs

In the early years of the depression, he would hold these large, free banquets for followers and anybody else who wanted to come along. His wife, peninus, passed awayand he married a 21 year old white woman named edna ritchings in 19 forty six. And he justified the marriage by saying that the spirit of his dead wife had transmigrated into the body of the younger woman. By the late 18 fifties, i'm sorry, 19 fifties,. this eccentric sharecroppers son has created an empire. He'd established himself in this massive french gothic mansion on a 72 acre estate outside philadelphia, which was given to him by one of