FINDING HOPE IN THE CHURCH

COMING INTO COMMNITIES FOR AFRICAN AMERICANS:

• Helped others
• Helped each over to survive
• Helped those to even prosper
• Helped face challenges of segregation and discrimination

IN THE NORTH

THE FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH

• Began in the south
• In 1750
• Due to communities growing from South to North

AFTER THE CIVIL WAR

• African American missionaries traveled to the South to open new churches.

NATIONAL BAPTIST CONVENTION

• Created in 1894
• The largest African American religious organization in the country

COLORED METHODIST CHURCHES

• They sorted a colored Methodist church, known today as the Christian Methodist Episcopal Church.

THE CHURCH

• The church taught others literature, and helped open shops, built schools
• Literacy among Southern African Americans increased 60% by the 1900s!

THE END!