Alethia Tanner
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Alethia "Lethe" Tanner was an American educator and a leader in the African American community of Washington, D.C. in the early nineteenth century. She purchased the freedom of 18 enslaved people and
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Israel Metropolitan Christian Methodist Episcopal Church is a Christian Methodist Episcopal Church in Washington, D.C. It was the first independent African American church of the city.
Alethia Tanner
…finding it unwelcoming because they did not want to be confined to the galleria in the church. Alethia, her sister, and her sister's husband joined Israel Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church. They later purchased it when it was auctioned. When she died, she was a member of Union Bethel AME Church, which was established with the help of her…
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