February 2010
73 posts
THE HISTORY OF A HISTORIC AFRICAN AMERICAN CHURCH →
The aboved named Church was founded on the 3rd. Sunday in July 1800.The owners of the Slaves was the Twiggs family when approached by “Slave” JW. Sutton who asked for permission to start a Church the owners pondered his request for several days and eventually decided to allow them to star a Church the area was surrounded by a Creek called Spirit Creek thus the Name for the Church was...
I nominate Frances Ellen Watkins Harper who died in Philadelphia in 1911. She continued to speak out in concern for the welfare of people of African descent in the United States, especially in the southern states. As the dark night of Jim Crow descended upon the United States, this champion who was born in a slave state (Maryland) of Free Black parents and became the best loved African American...
My “Unsung Hero” is my mother Mary F. Smith.(October 16, 1936-August 21, 2005). She was also my best friend. She started as a musician playing for the A.M.E. church in San Antonio, Texas at the age of 6 until she died. She also had us singing as a group called “The Smith Quartet.” I can remember when she started working as a housekeeper and worked her way up to being a...
