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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Painting of Allen on display at the World Methodist Museum, Lake Junaluska, North Carolina
100 Greatest African Americans is a biographical dictionary of one hundred historically great Black Americans, as assessed by Temple University professor Molefi Kete Asante in 2002. A similar book was
Richard Allen (bishop)
…Richard Allen Schools, a charter school system in Ohio, is named after him In 2002, Molefi Kete Asante named Allen as one of the 100 Greatest African Americans. In 2010, a park in the Philadelphia suburb of Radnor Township was named for him…
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