Today leading freedmen of South Carolina gather in Charleston for the first Colored People’s Convention of the State of South Carolina. In the heart of the old Confederacy, they meet in Zion Presbyterian Church. Many Baptists are among those present. The intent of the convention is to begin charting a positive course forward for African…
Tensions between whites and freedmen grow all the more in many towns and cities throughout the former Confederacy. In Atlanta this month black members of the white-led First Baptist Church yet use the white First Baptist Church facilities for their now-autonomous worship services. Once wanted in the church in order that white members might deploy…
Carmel Baptist Church, in eastern Texas near the town of Lindale, is one of the oldest Baptist churches in the young state. Founded in 1853, the church began in a vacant house on Duck Creek with six charter members. During the remainder of the decade the church grew in numbers as more people moved into…