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Gregg, Howard D. History of the African Methodist Episcopal Church: The Black Church in Action. Nashville, TN: Henry A. Belin, Jr., 1980. Owens, A. Nevell. Formation of the African Methodist Episcopal Church in the Nineteenth Century: Rhetoric of Identification (Palgrave Macmillan US, 2014) ISBN 1349466212
The African Methodist Episcopal Church is the target of a class-action lawsuit filed on March 22 by as many as 5000 eligible beneficiaries of its pension fund that has lost at least $90 million ...
The Rt. Rev. Reginald T. Jackson was elected and consecrated as the 132 bishop [1] in the A.M.E. Church in 2012 at the 49th Quadrennial Session General Conference in Nashville, Tennessee. He was elected out of the First Episcopal District and stood on the platform: "Imagine the Church at Its Best" and "Strengthen Local Churches"!
The Allen Chapel A.M.E. Church in Murfreesboro, Tennessee is a historic African Methodist Episcopal church at 224 S. Maney Avenue. It was built in 1889 and added to the National Register in 1995. [1] It is a one-story brick building on a brick foundation.
The Tennessee-Western Kentucky Conference is an Annual Conference (a regional episcopal area, similar to a diocese) of the United Methodist Church.This conference serves the congregations in Middle Tennessee and West Tennessee and is part of the Southeastern Jurisdictional Conference, and is over seen by resident Bishop Reverend David Graves.
Vashti was born on May 28, 1947, in Baltimore, Maryland. She is the daughter of Samuel Edward Smith and Ida Murphy Smith Peters. [6] She was named after her maternal grandmother, Vashti Turley Murphy, [7] who was one of 22 women who founded the Delta Sigma Theta sorority in 1913, while a student at Howard University.
William B. Derrick (July 27, 1843 – April 15, 1913) was an African Methodist Episcopal (AME) bishop and missionary. He began his career as a seaman and later served in the Union Navy during the US Civil War. Following the war, he transitioned to the AME church, where he became actively engaged in church leadership and missionary work.
John Mifflin Brown (September 8, 1817 – March 16, 1893) was a bishop in the African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church. He was a leader in the Underground Railroad.He helped open a number of churches and schools, including the Payne Institute which became Allen University in Columbia, South Carolina, and Paul Quinn College in Waco, Texas.