John Berry Meachum
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John Berry Meachum
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John Berry Meachum was an American pastor, businessman, educator and founder of the First African Baptist Church in St. Louis, the oldest black church west of the Mississippi River. At a time when it was illegal in the city to teach people of color to read and write, Meachum operated a school in the church's basement. Meachum also circumvented a Missouri state law banning education for black people by creating the Floating Freedom School on a steamboat on the Mississippi River. As a young man, h
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Baptist minister and educator (1789–1854)
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2024-04-01T16:20:42Z
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