George Freeman Bragg manuscripts undated

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George Freeman Bragg manuscripts undated

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The George Freeman Bragg Manuscripts consist primarily of biographical essays about three prominent nineteenth century African Americans in addition to two lists, the first providing names of famous African American women and the second, a list of people to be confirmed, presumably at St. James Episcopal Church. The biographical essays discuss such key figures as Daniel A. Payne, Blanche Kelso Bruce and John Mercer Langston. Other typescripts pertain to the history of African Americans in the Episcopal Church and the union of the African Methodist Episcopal Church and the Episcopal Church.

Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Rare Books, Manuscripts, and Archives Section

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Bragg, George F. (George Freeman), 1863-1940

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African American Episcopal minister active in Virginia and Baltimore, Md. From the description of Papers, 1889-1930. (Moorland-Spingarn Resource Center). WorldCat record id: 70941073 George Freeman Bragg served as rector of St. James Episcopal Church in Baltimore, Maryland from 1891 until his death in 1940 and also edited and published several newspapers. Born in Warrenton, North Carolina, he was brought up in Virginia. In 1887 Bragg graduated from t...

Episcopal Church

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In 1982, the General Convention of the Church deleted the words "Protestant" and "in the United States of America" from the official title of the Church, making it the Episcopal Church. From the description of Records of the Protestant Episcopal Church of the United States of America, Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society, 1823-1975 (inclusive). (Yale University). WorldCat record id: 702152635 ...

Langston, John Mercer, 1829-1897

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John Mercer Langston (December 14, 1829 – November 15, 1897) was an American abolitionist, attorney, educator, activist, diplomat, and politician. An African American, he became the first dean of the law school at Howard University and helped create the department. He was the first president of what is now Virginia State University, a historically black college. Born free in Virginia to a freedwoman of mixed race and a white planter father, in 1888 Langston was elected to the U.S. Congress as...

Payne, Daniel Alexander, 1811-1893

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Bishop, scholar, philanthropist, and a founder and second president of Wilberforce University (1863-1876). From the description of Daniel Alexander Payne papers, 1858-1994. (Wilberforce University). WorldCat record id: 70978999 African American senior bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Church and president of Wilberforce University. From the description of Daniel Alexander Payne collection, 1856-1878. (Moorland-Spingarn Resource Center). WorldCat record id...

African Methodist Episcopal Church. Seventh Episcopal District

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Organized in 1816 from a congregation formed by a group of blacks who withdrew in 1787 from St. George's Methodist Episcopal Church in Philadelphia because of discrimination; Richard Allen was consecrated the first bishop in 1816. From the description of African Methodist Episcopal Church collection, 1914-1971 (bulk 1950-1971). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70962830 ...

Bruce, Blanche Kelso, 1841-1898

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Blanche Kelso Bruce (March 1, 1841 – March 17, 1898) was born into slavery in Prince Edward County, Virginia and went on to become a politician who represented Mississippi as a Republican in the United States Senate from 1875 to 1881. He was the first elected African-American senator to serve a full term (Hiram R. Revels, also of Mississippi, was the first African American to serve in the U.S. Senate but did not complete a full term). In 1868, during Reconstruction, Bruce relocated to Bolivar...