An Iconic Identity: Stories and Voices of Duke University Chapel

Special Services and Speakers

Billy Graham, 1973

Billy Graham, 1973

Photograph Collection, Duke University Archive

 

Over the past eighty years, luminaries such as Maya Angelou, Desmond Tutu, and Billy Graham have spoken at the Chapel. Duke Chapel welcomed its first female preacher (Georgia Harkness) in 1939, its first Jewish rabbi (Morris Larzaron) in 1950, and its first African-American preacher (Samuel Proctor) in 1964. Many of the sermons from these famous preachers are available online.

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