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American bishop and fraternity founder

Edgar Amos Love (September 10, 1891 – May 1, 1974) was an American bishop with the Methodist Episcopal and a civil rights spokesman.

He is also noted as a founder of Omega Psi Phi, the first international fraternity founded at an HBCU.

Early life

Edgar Amos Love was born in the Carter's Methodist Church parsonage in Harrisonburg, Virginia.

His father, Julius C. Love, was a minister in the Methodist Episcopal Church. His mother, Susie Love (née Carr), was also a licensed minister and the first woman to graduate from Morgan College. Due to the pastoral obligations of his father, Love spent portions of his childhood in Maryland, Virginia, and West Virginia.

Bishop edgar amos love biography

He was one of seven children.

Love graduated from the Normal and Industrial Academy of Morgan College from 1904 to 1909. He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Howard University in 1913. While at Howard, Love and two other students, Oscar James Cooper and Frank Coleman, established