Frank S. Cherry (c. 1875–1963) was an American man who was the founder and leader of one of the early Black Hebrew Israelite groups in the United States.
[2][3] He then established and led a congregation in Chattanooga, Tennessee, in 1886, where he preached that white people were inherently evil and hated by God.
[1] Tenets of his group, known as the Church of the Living God, the Pillar Ground of Truth for All Nations, were based on black nationalist rhetoric of the time and he himself was a supporter of Marcus Garvey.
[5][6] Cherry also espoused antisemitism, claimed that the earth is square, and professed that Jesus would return in the year 2000 to start a race war.
[7] Shais Rishon, a Black Orthodox Jewish writer and activist, stated that Cherry was "a southern Baptist who never belonged nor converted to any branch of Judaism.