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Professor Black Herman died on April 17, 1934, while on tour in Louisville, Kentucky. In an obituary, The New York Age, a leading African American newspaper, described him as one of Harlem’s most colorful characters — a magician, seer, herb specialist and fortune teller; a man who, among his followers, “had risen to the standing of god whom they expect to rise out of his grave.”
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Professor Black Herman died on April 17, 1934, while on tour in Louisville, Kentucky. In an obituary, The New York Age, a leading African American newspaper, described him as one of Harlem’s most colorful characters — a magician, seer, herb specialist and fortune teller; a man who, among his followers, “had risen to the standing of god whom they expect to rise out of his grave.”
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![1934: Death of Benjamin Rucker](https://austinseance.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Black-Herman-Mug.png)
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![1934: Death of Benjamin Rucker](https://austinseance.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Black-Herman-Mug.png)
Professor Black Herman died on April 17, 1934, while on tour in Louisville, Kentucky. In an obituary, The New York Age, a leading African American newspaper, described him as one of Harlem’s most colorful characters — a magician, seer, herb specialist and fortune teller; a man who, among his followers, “had risen to the standing of god whom they expect to rise out of his grave.”
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![1934: Death of Benjamin Rucker](https://austinseance.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Black-Herman-Mug.png)
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![1934: Death of Benjamin Rucker](https://austinseance.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Black-Herman-Mug.png)
Professor Black Herman died on April 17, 1934, while on tour in Louisville, Kentucky. In an obituary, The New York Age, a leading African American newspaper, described him as one of Harlem’s most colorful characters — a magician, seer, herb specialist and fortune teller; a man who, among his followers, “had risen to the standing of god whom they expect to rise out of his grave.”
![1934: Death of Benjamin Rucker](https://austinseance.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Black-Herman-Mug.png)
![1934: Death of Benjamin Rucker](https://austinseance.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Black-Herman-Mug.png)
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![1934: Death of Benjamin Rucker](https://austinseance.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Black-Herman-Mug.png)
![1934: Death of Benjamin Rucker](https://austinseance.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Black-Herman-Mug.png)
Professor Black Herman died on April 17, 1934, while on tour in Louisville, Kentucky. In an obituary, The New York Age, a leading African American newspaper, described him as one of Harlem’s most colorful characters — a magician, seer, herb specialist and fortune teller; a man who, among his followers, “had risen to the standing of god whom they expect to rise out of his grave.”