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Historic Mother Bethel A.M.E.’s new pastor has a message to Philadelphians in the wake of political vitriol: ‘You are amazing’
who led the Philadelphia church for 16 years before stepping down to pursue a position on the A.M.E. executive team. Mother Bethel, a National Historic Landmark and hub for activism, is one of the ...
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"Address to the Free People of Colour of these United States"
in the city of Philadelphia." From September 20th to the 24th, thirty-eight delegates from eight states met at Bethel AME Church, in the first of a series of national conventions, to form the ...
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Meeting in the African Church, Cincinnati, Ohio
which met for the first time in Richard Allen's Bethel AME Church in Philadelphia in 1830. By the 1850s, when the Illustrated News published this image of the African Church, increasing numbers of ...