Ford created a business venture via the synagogue that focused on real estate and other ventures, but the realities of The Great Depression in 1930 would prove to be its undoing. With his business bankrupt, Ford accepted an invitation from the Ethiopian government to emigrate to the African nation.
Ethiopian leader Haile Selassie granted several Blacks hundreds of acres of land, which Ford and several other Black Jews lived out the rest of their days on, devoted to their faith.
Ford passed in 1935.
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Little Known Black History Fact: Arnold Josiah Ford was originally published on blackamericaweb.com
