
Richard Allen: Religious Leader and Social Activist (Black Americans of Achievement Ser.Black Americans of Achievement)
Religion, Biographies, Religion (biographies)
Audio avec voix humaine
Résumé
In November 1787, after a commotion in church in which black worshippers were pulled from their knees in the effort to enforce segregation, Richard Allen and his colleagues established the African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church, the first African-American Christian denomination.… A leader in the political arena as well, Allen worked hard to thwart the efforts of the American Colonization Society. For grades 5-8 and older readers. 1991