Richard Allen: Philadelphia Black History Month All-Star
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Video
Documentary on Richard Allen
Via Female parent Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church and the D'Brickashaw Ferguson Foundation
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Video
Documentary on Richard Allen
In 2016, Charles Barkley marked Blackness History Calendar month with a daily spotlight on local African-American heroes. Many of them didn't make it into the history books or even the newspapers of their time. Only their stories are inspiring and worth knowing. Here's another look.
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Richard Allen
Preacher/Civil Rights Activist
Richard Allen
Preacher/Civil Rights Activist
(February 14, 1760 – March 26, 1831)
An inspiration to Frederick Douglass and Martin Luther King Jr., Allen was a religious homo—and wholly devoted to the African American cause.
He was born into slavery and bought his own freedom at the age of 23.
Subsequently hearing a Methodist preacher speak out confronting slavery, Allen became a Methodist himself.
In 1794, he and ten others founded the Bethel Church, a blackness Methodist church that stood on a plot of land, in what is now on the edge of Gild Hill, that Allen purchased with his meager earnings as a chimney sweep and shoemaker.
Allen and his wife used the church for prayer, but too as a stop forth the Underground Railroad for hiding runaway slaves.
W.E.B. Dubois chosen Mother Bethel, "By long odds the vastest and nigh remarkable production of American Negro culture."
It became more than vast and remarkable once it turned into a subsidiary of the African Methodist Episcopal Church building (A.1000.E.)—the first national black church in the Usa.
Allen was an early face of the civil-rights motility, and Richard Newman went so far as to telephone call Allen "[The] Blackness Founding Father."
Teaching:
(None institute)
ACCOMPLISHMENTS:
- In 1816, he founded the kickoff national black church in the Us, A.M.East.
- Helped plant the Costless African Society, a religious aid order dedicated to helping the black customs
- In 1830, he formed the Free Produce Society, a membership organization that would just buy food from non-slave labor.
LAST Give-and-take:
William Lloyd Garrison said of Allen, "[he was] one of the purest friends and patriots that e'er exerted his energies in favor of civil and religious liberty. His noble deeds volition remain cherished in the retentiveness of mankind as imperishable monuments of eternal glory."
Home page epitome: © 2002 Metropolis of Philadelphia Mural Arts Program / Ras Malik. Photo past Jack Ramsdale
Source: https://thephiladelphiacitizen.org/richard-allen-philadelphia/
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