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.
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Henry McNeal Turner was an American minister, politician, and the 12th elected and consecrated bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Church. After the American Civil War, he worked to establish ne
Israel Metropolitan Christian Methodist Episcopal Church
…Church. It was the second-largest African-American church in the District of Columbia and supported enlisting black men into the Union Army when Reverend Henry McNeal Turner was pastor. The church held meetings to strategize abolition and anti-slavery initiatives. It advocated the abolition of slavery, called for volunteers…
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