{"id":3121241,"date":"2024-11-01T00:10:00","date_gmt":"2024-11-01T04:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.friendsjournal.org\/james-edgar-syphers\/"},"modified":"2025-10-12T00:54:35","modified_gmt":"2025-10-12T04:54:35","slug":"james-edgar-syphers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.friendsjournal.org\/es\/james-edgar-syphers\/","title":{"rendered":"James Edgar Syphers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Syphers<\/strong>\u2014<em>James Edgar Syphers<\/em>, de 90 a\u00f1os, falleci\u00f3 el 8 de enero de 2024 en el WVU Medicine Uniontown Hospital en Uniontown, Pensilvania. James naci\u00f3 el 21 de febrero de 1933, hijo de Albion Syphers y Mary Gray en Greenland, N.H. James trabaj\u00f3 en granjas durante su juventud antes de graduarse de Portsmouth High School en 1950. 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Sirvi\u00f3 en dos iglesias congregacionales como pastor y en dos iglesias metodistas como pastor asistente. Al completar los formularios sobre deberes ministeriales, James sol\u00eda poner la \u201cpredicaci\u00f3n\u201d al final. Ayudar a la gente era lo que valoraba.   <\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">James asisti\u00f3 a la Escuela de Trabajo Social de la Universidad de Pittsburgh de 1963 a 1965. En 1963, organiz\u00f3 a los participantes del oeste de Pensilvania en la Marcha sobre Washington de 1963. Particip\u00f3 en la marcha de Selma a Montgomery en marzo de 1965, donde escuch\u00f3 a Martin Luther King Jr. y a otros oradores.  <\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">James trabaj\u00f3 para el American Friends Service Committee durante cinco a\u00f1os en Pittsburgh. De 1965 a 1969, trabaj\u00f3 en el Hill District de Pittsburgh, donde dirigi\u00f3 varias manifestaciones relacionadas con temas interraciales. Estuvo activo en el Friends Committee on National Legislation de 1973 a 1979. James obtuvo un doctorado en educaci\u00f3n superior en 1978 mientras ense\u00f1aba en la Lincoln University, la primera universidad hist\u00f3ricamente negra del pa\u00eds que otorgaba t\u00edtulos. Se mud\u00f3 a Michigan, donde ense\u00f1\u00f3 en la Saginaw Valley State University hasta 1987. Ense\u00f1\u00f3 en la Western Carolina University en Carolina del Norte de 1987 a 1990. Desde 1990 hasta 1992, James fue el director de servicios sociales en la Downingtown Industrial and Agricultural School, una escuela para estudiantes afroamericanos en Downingtown, Pensilvania. Ense\u00f1\u00f3 en la California University of Pennsylvania en 1993 hasta que se jubil\u00f3 en 2002. 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