George Lisle
George Lisle was the founder of Jamaica’s first Negro Baptist Church. He was also the first ordained black Baptist minister in America and also in...
South Africa Begins Apartheid 1949
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By the end of the nineteenth century, South Africa had been completely colonized by European Powers because it made a convenient port to supply ships...
John Marrant
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JOHN MARRANT  freeborn black American, author, and minister of the Countess of Huntingdon’s Connexion; b. 15 June 1755 in New York; d. 15 April 1791 in Islington (London), England. John Marrant’s early...
David George
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David George was born a slave in Virginia. He grew up on a plantation with his family and a master of uncommon cruelty. Both of...
Ralph Mark Gilbert
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Ralph Mark Gilbert came to Savannah as pastor of the historic First African Baptist Church on Franklin Square, which he served from 1939 to 1956....
First African Baptist Church
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The First African Baptist Church in Savannah is one of the oldest African American Baptist churches in North America. It was not formally established until...
Henry Hugh Proctor
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The Reverend Henry Hugh Proctor was the first African American pastor of the First Congregational Church in Atlanta, serving from 1894 until 1920. His dynamic...
E. K. Love
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The minister and missionary E. K. Love was a prominent Baptist leader and writer in nineteenth-century Georgia. Dedicated to fighting racism, Love was also a...
Joseph Jenkins Roberts
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Joseph Jenkins Roberts, (born March 15, 1809, Petersburg, Va., U.S.—died Feb. 24, 1876, Monrovia, Liberia), American-born, first president of Liberia (1848–56). A native of Virginia,...
Boston King
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BOSTON KING,  Methodist preacher, and author; b. c. 1760 near Charleston, S.C.; d. 1802 in Sierra Leone. Boston King was born a slave on Richard Waring’s plantation...