Raboteau was accepted into college at the age of 16. Thomas Catholic Church of Ann Arbor to sing in an international choir festival at the Vatican. When he was 11 years old he traveled with other choir boys from St. Raboteau attended Catholic parochial schools. Raboteau's stepfather taught the boy Latin and Greek starting at the age of five years, and helped him to focus on church and education as he grew up. They lived in Ann Arbor, Michigan, for a period and in California. She married again, to Royal Woods, an African-American minister. His widowed mother moved the family from Mississippi, where she was a teacher, to find a better place in the North for her children to grow up. Raboteau was named for his late father, who was of African and French Creole descent. The killer claimed self-defense and was never prosecuted. (1899–1943), was killed there by a white man. Louis, Mississippi, three months after his father, Albert Jordy Raboteau, Sr. Putnam Professor of Religion.īiography Early life and education Īlbert Raboteau was born into a Catholic family in Bay St. Since 1982, he had been affiliated with Princeton University, where he was Henry W. Albert Jordy "Al" Raboteau II (Septem– September 18, 2021) was an American scholar of African and African-American religions.
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