Historical Endorsements
The Honorable Governor James Blanchard; MI
The Honorable Governor John Engler; MI
The Honorable Governor Jennifer Granholm; MI
The Honorable Congressman John Conyers
President of the United States, Ronald Reagan
President of the United States, George W. Bush
President of the United States Jimmy Carter
U.S. Department of Defense General Colin Powell
U.S. Department of Defense Donald Henry Rumsfeld
U.S. Department of Defense Secretary Dr. Mark T. Esper
U.S. Department of Defense Lloyd Austin, Rtd. Military General
Reverend C. L. Franklin, New Bethel Baptist Church
Reverend Joseph Lowery, Leader, Civil Rights Movement
Reverend P.A. Brooks, C.O.G.I.C
The Episcopal Conference of Ecumenical Ministers Commissioned the organization of the Cathedral of St. Augustine’s for purposes of Governance, Meharry College, LLC, predecessor, Michigan Lutheran College, renamed “University St. Augustine’s”, and Michigan Cemetery asset acquisitions, operations, and internment services.
Reverend Dr. Benjamin Hook, Greater New Mt. Morriah Church, Civil Rights Activist, U.S. Presidential Appointee FCC, Executive Director National Association Colored People (NAACP);
Auxiliary Bishop Moses Anderson, Region 1 Detroit Archdiocese;
The Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod;
Reverend. Avery Aldridge, Foss Avenue Baptist Church;
B'nai Synagogues Jewish Christian Relations; Sherman Namoni, Ralph Miller
Reverend Lemmons, Bethel AME Church Detroit;
Civil Rights Leader Reverend Albert B. Cleage Jr, Shrine of the Black Madonna
Bishop Mason Anderson, The Cathedral Church of St. Paul Episcopal, Detroit
UAW Vice President Marc Stepp
Dr. Fredrick G. Sampson, Tabernacle Missionary Baptist Church
Reverend Dr. Charles E. Morton, Metropolitan Missionary Episcopal Church. The Governor's Commission for Decentralization of the Detroit Public Schools and Vice Chairman of the Commission on Higher Education.
Bishop Grant
Reverend Hall,
Dr. Odis Floyd, New Jerusalem Full Gospel Baptist Church
Reverend Dan Aldridge, Black United Front (“BUF”)
First Lady Coretta Scott King (Martin Luther King Jr.)
The Martin Luther King Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change (The King Center)
First Lady Betty Shabazz (Malcolm Shabazz | Malcolm X)
Education, Civil Rights, and Humanitarian Advocate
First Lady Nancy Davis Reagan (40Th U.S. President Ronald W. Reagan)
University St. Augustine’s (USA)
(MeHarry College, LLC)
Education Advocacy; Designation, Michigan’s HBCU
Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, (Nelson Mandela)
South African Social Worker and Anti-Apartheid Activist
Black South Africans “Mother of the Nation”
First Lady of the United States Rosalynn Carter
C.Louise Pinson, Trustees
USA Anti-Poverty & Humanitarian Institutes
Haitian Orphanage @ Cathedral St. Augustine’s
USA – Mental Wealth Institute