Category : Religion

The Knights of Peter Claver organization was founded in 1909 in Mobile, Alabama. It is the largest African American Catholic lay organization in the United...

Channing H. Tobias acquired fame through his work with the YMCA. Born in Augusta, Georgia on February 1, 1882, to Fair and Bell Robinson Tobias,...

William J. Seymour was born in Centerville, Louisiana, to former slaves Simon and Phillis Seymour, who raised him in the Baptist church. While living in...

The National Baptist Convention, USA, Incorporated (NBCUSA) is made up of approximately 7.5 million African American Baptists, making it the largest African-American organization in the...

Amanda Berry Smith was a Methodist holiness evangelist, missionary to Africa and founder of an orphanage for African American children.  Amanda was born into slavery...

The first black Baptist congregation in South Carolina was formed in 1773 on the Galphin Plantation near Silver Bluff, 14 miles northwest of  Savannah, Georgia. ...

First Baptist Church, Capitol Hill lays claim to the designation as the oldest continuously operating African American church in Tennessee because it traces its origin...

Mary Magdalena Lewis Tate founded a Pentecostal denomination and became one of the first American women to hold the title of bishop. Born in Vanleer,...

Minister, civil rights activist, vocalist, Jesse Lee Douglas, Sr. was born August 19, 1930, in New Orleans, Louisiana, to William and Isabella Douglas, a Merchant...