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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Nationality. American. Other names. Sara Allen and Mother Allen. Occupation. Abolitionist. Sarah Allen (also known as Sara Allen[1] and Mother Allen; [2] née Bass; 1764 – July 16, 1849) was an American abolitionist and missionary for the African Methodist Episcopal Church. She is known within the AME Church as The ...
Other female preachers included Sarah A. Hughes, Margaret Wilson, Emily Calkins Stevens, and Lena Doolin Mason. [6] In 1868, the Church's General Conference created the position of stewardesses. While stewardess was a lay position, it was the first one open to women within the Church's hierarchy. Yet, the powers of stewardesses were limited.
Sarah E. Gorham (1832–1894) was the first woman to be sent out as a missionary from the African Methodist Episcopal Church. [1] She has been described as a "missionary, church leaders, social worker". Gorham was born in either Maryland or Virginia, [2] but her life is not documented until 1880, when she visited family members who had moved to ...
Ransom was an AME Church minister's wife after 1886, and moved to various cities with his work. She spoke to the annual meeting of the Woman's Mite Missionary Society in Cleveland in 1895, about mission work by African-American women in Africa. She addressed the Illinois Federation of Colored Women's Clubs in 1903, speaking on voting rights.
1876. Architectural style. Greek Revival, Mid 19th Century Revival. NRHP reference No. 97000954 [1] Added to NRHP. September 5, 1997. St. Paul's African Methodist Episcopal Church is a historic church in Urbana, Ohio, United States. Built in the Greek Revival style in 1876, [1] it is home to a congregation that was founded in the mid-1820s.
t. e. The African Methodist Episcopal Church, usually called the AME Church or AME, is a Methodist denomination based in the United States. It adheres to Wesleyan–Arminian theology and has a connexional polity. [4] It cooperates with other Methodist bodies through the World Methodist Council and Wesleyan Holiness Connection.
Marie L. Clinton, from a 1922 publication. Marie Louise Clay Clinton (1871 – January 9, 1934) was an American educator, singer, and church leader. She was the founder and superintendent of the Buds of Promise Juvenile Mission Society, under the Women's Home and Overseas Missionary Society (WH&OMS) of the African Methodist Episcopal Zion ...
Charlotte Makgomo (née Mannya) Maxeke (7 April 1871 [1] – 16 October 1939) was a South African religious leader, social and political activist. She was the first black woman to graduate with a university degree in South Africa with a B.Sc. from Wilberforce University, Ohio, in 1903, as well as the first African woman to graduate from an American university.