As the African American attendance at the church ... In a former blacksmith’s shop, he started Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church, which grew to more than 1,000 members in just under ...

Among the recipients of the grants, which range from $50,000 to $500,000, is The Historic Bethel Baptist ... the National Council of Churches and the first African American U.S. ambassador to ...

"At this point, we do not believe — and we're pretty confident — that no rounds were fired from the subject," a spokesman for ...

the Action Fund is the nation’s largest resource dedicated to preserving historic African American sites. A National Historic Landmark, Historic Bethel Baptist Church was constructed in 1926 and ...

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 American Society of Free Persons ...

City Commissioners again discussed the effort to preserve the historic Union Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Great Falls during their March 18 meeting. Last summer, the Montana Historical ...

Second Baptist Church in Warren and New Bethel Baptist Church in Youngstown ... said he wants people to be aware of the presence of the African-American church and its mission work.