Mourning Mom on Mother’s Day

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Mourning Mom on Mother’s Day

Mother’s Day is a time of celebration, where folks scramble about trying to find the perfect gift to bestow on the one who gave them life. Families gather at church, some around a dinner table piled high with Mom’s favorite dishes and desserts. For others, though, the May holiday is a time of bereavement, a reminder of pain and an […]

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Bridgeforth moved from Louisiana to Utah in 1944. He worked for the US Army and later became a conductor with the Union Pacific Railroad. In 1946 he married his first wife, Helena Marie Romero. Nine years after his migration to Utah, Bridgeforth converted to the Mormon faith in 1953. At the

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First National Black Convention Meets

First National Black convention met at Philadelphias Bethel AME church and elected Richard Allen president. Thirty-eight delegates from eight states attended the first national meeting of Blacks.

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20

1830

St. Bartley Primitive Baptist Church [Huntsville] (1808- )

Instituted in 1808 by enslaved blacks, St. Bartley PrimitiveBaptist Church of Huntsville, Alabama, exemplifies 206 years of blackreligious independence. It was located originallyoutside the city limits of Huntsville near present day Governors Driveand Madison Street, among the

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Blacks held a protest in Zion Church

Blacks held protest convention in Zion Church in Charleston and demanded equal rights and repeal of the Black Codes.

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Nov

20

1865

Rust College [Holly Springs] (1866- )

Rust College was founded in 1866 by the Freeman’s Aid Society’s missionaries of the Methodist Episcopal Church with the goal of providing basic education for adults and children who had formerly been enslaved. Located outside Holly Springs, Mississippi, the College is currently affiliated with the

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Saint Francis Xavier Church

The first exclusively Black parish in the United States was Saint Francis Xavier Church in Baltimore, Maryland. It was purchased on this day and dedicated months later.

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Oct

10

1863

Bailey, Thurl Lee (1961– )

Thurl Lee Bailey is a retired American professional basketball player who played in the National Basketball Association (NBA) from 1983 to 1999 with the Utah Jazz and Minnesota Timberwolves. Bailey has also beena broadcast analyst for the Utah Jazz and the University of Utah and aninspirational

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1995

Mary Church Terrell, born

Mary Church Terrell, born

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23

1863

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1778 - The Baptist church decides that marriages between slaves should be respected.

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Jan

0

1778

Wells, Nathaniel (1779 – 1852)

Nathaniel Wells, a former slave, plantation owner, and businessman who lived during the 18th and 19th centuries, was also the first person of African ancestry to become a High Sheriff in England. Wells was born on September 10, 1779 on the island of St. Kitts in the Caribbean to William

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May

13

1852

Harris, Barbara C. (1930- )

Religious leader Barbara Clementine Harris was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to Walter and Beatrice (Price) Harris on June 12, 1930. After graduating from the Charles Morris Price School of Advertising and Journalism, she joined Joseph V. Baker Associates, Inc., a black-owned public relations

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Absalom Jones and his followers dedicated African

Absalom Jones and his followers dedicated African Church of St. Thomas in Philadelphia. On August 12, 1794, the St. Thomas parishioners affiliated with the Protestant Episcopal Church.

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Aug

12

1794

Abel, Elijah (1810-1884)

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Mensah, Raphael Abraham Frank (1924-1990s)

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First Black person to serve on the DC board of education, Mary Church Terrell di

First Black person to serve on the DC board of education, Mary Church Terrell dies, 1954

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Jul

24

1954

Freeman, Joseph (1953– )

In 1978 Joseph Freeman became the first man of African ancestry to be granted the priesthood after the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints announced that any male could be ordained, regardless of race or color. Freeman was born July 24, 1953, in Vanceboro, North Carolina, to Rose Lee Smith

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Jul

5

1852

Death of Bishop R. C. Lawson

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Jul

2

1961

Mother Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church [Philadelphia] (1794- )

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Jul

29

1794

'This Far By Faith'

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8

1999

Atlanta's Ebenezer Baptist Church

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Jan

15

1970

First Missionary Baptist Church [Little Rock, Arkansas] (1845- )

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St. Augustine Catholic Church, New Orleans, Louisiana (1841- )

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Oct

9

1842

Mount Olive Missionary Baptist Church (1835- )

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Abyssinian Baptist Church, New York City (1808- )

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24

1885

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26

1831

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