James A. Dombrowski

James Anderson Dombrowski (January 17, 1897 - May 2, 1983) was a southern white Methodist minister and intellectual who was active in the African-American civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s. He lived in New Orleans from 1946 until his death but was involved in public affairs across the country.

James Dombrowski was born in Tampa, Florida, to William Dombrowski and the former Isabella Skinner. He attended public schools in Tampa and Newark, New Jersey. He obtained a bachelor's degree from Methodist-affiliated Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, in 1923. Dombrowski also attended Union Theological Seminary and Columbia University, both in New York City. He received his Ph.D. from Columbia in 1933. Dombrowski studied under Reinhold Niebuhr and the liberal Methodist clergyman Harry F. Ward.

Dombrowski enlisted in the United States Army Air Forces during World War I, and served from October 1917 to March 1919 as an airplane mechanic near Paris. He obtained the rank of sergeant.

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