Pamphlet and newspaper clippings : Mother Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church, 1974,1985,1989,1990.

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Pamphlet and newspaper clippings : Mother Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church, 1974,1985,1989,1990.

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Mother Bethel Church was founded by the Reverend Richard Allen in 1787 because he refused to worship in segregated congregations. It is the oldest A.M.E. church founded and owned by African-American people in the United States. Folder consists of clipppings documenting the history and activities of the church.

1 file folder ; 31 cm.

Temple University, Blockson Afro-American History Collection

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Mother Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church (Philadelphia, Pa.)

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Mother Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church of Philadelphia, dedicated in 1793, was an outgrowth of the movement among African Americans to organize into separate congregations. In 1787 a group of African Americans in Philadelphia withdrew from the white dominated Methodist Church and under the leadership of Richard Allen built Bethel Church. In 1816, Bethel joined with 16 other congregations to form the African Methodist Episcopal Church with Allen as the first bishop. From the...

Allen, Richard, 1760-1831

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Richard Allen (born February 14, 1760, Delaware Colony – died March 26, 1831, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) was a minister, educator, writer, and one of America's most active and influential Black leaders. In 1794, he founded the African Methodist Episcopal Church (AME), the first independent Black denomination in the United States. He opened his first AME church in 1794 in Philadelphia. Elected the first bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Church in 1816, Allen focused on organizing a de...