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Rev. '''Ray E. Phillips''' (1889-1967) was a Congregational minister who in 1918 came to South Africa from the United States with Dora, his wife (1892-1967) to join the American Board Mission in central Johannesburg. During the forty years that the Phillipses spent in South Africa, Ray helped found a number of organizations to assist black South Africans, or to foster racial co-operation. Firmly opposed to segregation, Phillips was involved in the founding of the [[Bantu Men's Social Centre]] (1924), the [[South African Institute for Race Relations]] (1929), the '''Johannesburg Coordinating Council for Non-European Welfare Organization''', and the [[Jan H. Hofmeyr School of Social Work]] (1941), of which he was the director. The Hofmeyr School provided training for black social workers, among whom Winnie Madikizela, before her marriage to Nelson Mandela.[1] Political activists like Nelson Mandela and Walter Sisulu (1912-2003) were members of the Bantu Men's Social Centre, and the African National Congress's Youth League was started on its premises in 1944.

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