Reverend James Theodore Holly
Born in Washington, D.C. as a descendant of free slaves, Holly was baptized and confirmed a Roman Catholic. His early years were spent in D.C....
Category : Religion
Harry Hosier
0626
Harry Hosier, also shown spelled Hoosier, was a popular Methodist preacher who found fame in the early 19th Century. A Fisk University history professor has...
WILLIAM HENRY JERNAGIN
0621
William Henry Jernagin was a Baptist minister, civil rights advocate, and Organizer of the Washington Bureau of the National Fraternal Council of Negro Churches. Born...
Prathia Hall Wynn
0782
Prathia Hall Wynn was a womanist, theologian, ethicist, and civil rights activist who has been credited with being a key inspiration for Martin Luther King...
Dexter Avenue Baptist Church Montgomery Alabama
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In 1954, Martin Luther King began his first full-time pastorship at Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama. While at Dexter, King became president of...
EBENEZER BAPTIST CHURCH, ATLANTA, GEORGIA
0660
Founded in 1886 by Pastor John Andrew Parker, a freedman, Ebenezer Baptist Church of Atlanta, Georgia had only 13 members and no church building upon...
Lynching preachers: How black pastors resisted Jim Crow and white pastors incited racial violence
0610
White lynch mobs in America murdered at least 4,467 people between 1883 and 1941, hanging, burning, dismembering, garroting, and blowtorching their victims. Their violence was...
How the King James Bible Came to Be
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Precisely 451 years after the June 19, 1566, birth of King James I of England, one achievement of his reign still stands above the rest:...
William Decker Johnson
0914
William Decker Johnson was the 42nd Bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church and founder of Johnson Home Industrial College in Archery, Georgia. Born...
Harlem’s Ethiopian Jews
0699
Alexander Alland’s Ethiopian Hebrews (c.1940) is a series of photographs in the Jewish Museum collection that documents the interior lives of a community of black...