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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.
Carolyn Tyler Guidry (sometimes spelled Tyler-Guidry), a bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, was the first woman appointed to be a presiding elder in the Fifth Episcopal District of the AME Church and the second woman to become a bishop in the denomination.
In 1988 he began serving as Bishop for the Sixth Episcopal District, in Georgia. [2] [16] He was a heavy critic of Ralph Abernathy's 1989 book And the Walls Came Tumbling Down, which made controversial claims about Martin Luther King Jr.'s private life. [17] [18] In 1992 Adams was named Bishop of the Seventh Episcopal District in South Carolina.
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Rev. Dr. Cecil L. “Chip” Murray, who served as pastor of the First African Methodist Episcopal Church of Los Angeles for 27 years, has died. He was 94. Murray died of natural causes Friday ...
[1] [2] During his middle and high school years, Murray became a junior preacher at his church, Payne Chapel African Methodist Episcopal (AME). [1] [3] As a teenager, he and his brother Edward witnessed his father confront three white men who were harassing Black people waiting at a soup kitchen. In response, the white men attacked their father ...
Today, its words resonate deeply as Bethel AME Church in Tallahassee bids a fond farewell to an era of profound care and leadership under Bishop Julius H. McAllister, Jr., who served faithfully ...
Stephen Gill Spottswood (July 18, 1897 – December 2, 1974) [1] was a religious leader and civil rights activist known for his work as bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church (AMEZ) and chairman of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).