Black church
A Black Church is a Christian church whose congregation is mostly of African descent. There are many in the United States and increasingly in the United Kingdom.
In the United States they include the African Methodist Episcopal Church and the Church of God in Christ. Many were started by freed black people. In the United Kingdom they have been mostly started by immigrants from West Africa. They often have distinct forms of worship from African spiritual traditions, such as call and response.[1]
Black Church Media
An African-American church in Palatka, Florida.
African American Baptist Church, Silver Hill Plantation, Georgetown County, South Carolina
African American churches during slavery were held in secret locations called hush harbors.
"Wade in the water." A postcard of a river baptism in New Bern, North Carolina, around 1900.
Outside of a black church in Little Rock, Arkansas, 1935.
Church goers in Heard County, Georgia, 1941.
Ralph David Abernathy was a Baptist minister involved in the American Civil Rights Movement.
Richard Allen
Worshippers at Holy Angels Catholic Church on the South Side of Chicago, Illinois, by John H. White, 1973.
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References
- ↑ Murphy, Joseph (1994). Working the Spirit: Ceremonies of the African Diaspora. Beacon Press Books. pp. 145–176. ISBN 9780807012215.
