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A Special Church for the Freed People: The African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church

Record #:
3853
Author(s):
Zipf, Karin L.
Abstract:
Afro-Americans chose to establish their own congregations and churches, partly because of segregation and partly because of a need to express their own African-Christian beliefs. The most prominent was the African Methodist Episcopal Zion (AME Zion) Church, organized in 1820 in the North and in New Bern in 1864.
Source:
Tar Heel Junior Historian (NoCar F 251 T3x), Vol. 37 Issue 2, Spring 1998, p28, il
Subject(s):
African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church; African American churches