by MikellRobert | Nov 30, 2016 | African American History, Businesses and Institutions
Organized in 1836, the Witherspoon Street Church is one of the oldest African American Presbyterian congregations in New Jersey. On March 10, 1836, 90 out of 131 former African American members of the Nassau Presbyterian Church were released from the congregation to...
by JohnsonWillard | Mar 19, 2016 | African American History, People
Georgia Montgomery Davis Powers was an American politician and activist, and in 1967, she became the first Black to be elected to the Senate of the state of Kentucky. Powers, a close friend of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., also worked with Rev. Jesse Jackson and...
by MikellRobert | Mar 5, 2015 | African American History, People
John Gloucester, founder of the first African American Presbyterian Church in the United States, was born enslaved in Blount County, Tennessee, in 1776. Before gaining his freedom, his name was Jack, and as a believer he began converting slaves to Christianity at an...
by MikellRobert | Feb 24, 2015 | African American History, Businesses and Institutions
First African Presbyterian Church, the nation’s oldest African American Presbyterian Church, located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, was founded in 1807 by former Tennessee slave John Gloucester. This church is the fourth of the first five African American...
by HenselBrit | Mar 31, 2014 | African American History, People
“Image Ownership: Presbyterian Historical Society” Reverend Gayraud Stephen Wilmore was an American pastor, educator, historian, and theologian. Born on December 20, 1921 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Wilmore attended Central High School where he was...
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