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The Abyssinian Baptist Church congregation traces its history to 1809, when seamen from the Ethiopian Empire (then known as Abyssinia) helped lead a walk-out protest against racially segregated church seating, and its congregation began to meet independently. Thomas Paul was an early minister of the church.
Adam Clayton Powell Sr. Adam Clayton Powell (May 5, 1865 [1] [2] – June 12, 1953) was an American pastor who developed the Abyssinian Baptist Church in Harlem, New York as the largest Protestant congregation in the country, with 10,000 members.
The Abyssinian Meeting House is a historic church building at 73–75 Newbury Street, in the Munjoy Hill neighborhood of Portland, Maine. [1] Built 1828-1831 by free African-Americans , it is Maine's oldest African-American church building, and the third oldest in the nation. [ 2 ]
John Baptist Abyssinian (or Yohannǝs; Latin: Johannes Baptista Abessinus or Habiscinus; Italian: Giovanni Battista Indiano; 1509–1567) was an Abyssinian of the Ethiopian community in Nicosia in Cyprus, who in 1565 was appointed Catholic bishop of the church of Holy Savior in Nicosia and papal nuncio to the Eastern Churches.
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In 1962, he left Abyssinian to start his own church. [1] In 1961, Dempsey entered the Democratic primary race for the New York City Council 's 21st District in Harlem. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] He lost in the primary election, receiving 8,732 votes, while his opponent Herbert B. Evans , the former New York Parole Commissioner, received 19,910.
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WRDW-TV commenced operations in February 1954; it is the second-oldest television station in Augusta. [3] The station was originally owned by Radio Augusta, the parent company of the original WRDW radio (1480 AM, later WCHZ and now defunct). [4]