Religious Organizations – Presbyterian
Lionel Hodge Newsom (1919-1991)
Educator and HCBU President Lionel Hodge Newsom was born on November 11, 1919 in Wichita Falls, Texas, to Lawson and...
American Missionary Association (1846-1999)
The American Missionary Association (AMA) was an abolitionist group founded on Protestant beliefs. It was focused on the abolition of slavery, education for African Americans,...
Cincinnati Race Riots (1836)
Fewer than half of Cincinnati, Ohio’s Black population remained in the city after the 1829 white riots. Most had left. Many of...
Eunice Gray Smith (1923-2006)
An accomplished mathematician, Eunice Gray Smith was among the first African American women hired to work at the Langley Memorial Aeronautical...
Fordie Ross (1914–2014)
Image Courtesy of Madeline Crowley Seattle businessman and civic activist Fordie Ross was born on April 21, 1914, in Tishomingo,...
Witherspoon Street Church (1836- )
Organized in 1836, the Witherspoon Street Church is one of the oldest African American Presbyterian congregations in New Jersey. On...
Georgia Davis Powers (1923-2016)
Georgia Montgomery Davis Powers was an American politician and activist, and in 1967, she became the first Black to be...
John Gloucester (1776- 1822)
John Gloucester, founder of the first African American Presbyterian Church in the United States, was born enslaved in Blount County,...
First African Presbyterian Church, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (1807- )
First African Presbyterian Church, the nation’s oldest African American Presbyterian Church, located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, was founded in 1807 by...
