Morris Brown
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Morris Brown was one of the founders of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, and its second presiding bishop. He founded Emanuel AME Church in his native Charleston, South Carolina. It was implicat
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Richard Allen (bishop)
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Richard Allen was an American minister, educator, writer, and one of the United States' most active and influential black leaders. In 1794, he founded the African Methodist Episcopal Church, the first
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…Brown married Maria, and they ultimately had six children. In 1817, Brown traveled north to Philadelphia, as he had learned that Rev. Richard Allen and 15 delegates from four northern states had founded the African Methodist Episcopal Church there the previous year. This was the first independent…
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Painting of Allen on display at the World Methodist Museum, Lake Junaluska, North Carolina