Rev. Dr. J. Archie Hargraves (1916 – 2003) was a distinguished urban minister and church leader who has served America’s cities for more than half a century. In 1948 he co-founded the East Harlem Protestant Parish, called by some “the most significant experiment in American Protestantism in the 20th Century.” He also co-founded The West Side Organization which is still considered a prototype for community-based organizations in this nation, and in the 1970s he was named one of the “Ten Churchmen of the Decade.” Hargraves also served as president of Shaw University.