Richard Allen (bishop)
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Richard Allen (bishop)
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Richard Allen was a minister, educator, writer, and one of the United States' most active and influential black leaders. In 1794, he founded the African Methodist Episcopal Church (AME), the first independent Black denomination in the United States. He opened his first AME church in 1794 in Philadelphia. Elected the first bishop of the AME Church in 1816, Allen focused on organizing a denomination in which free black people could worship without racial oppression and enslaved people could find a
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American educator, author, writer, and black leader (1760–1831)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Allen_(bishop)
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2003-08-01T01:39:04Z
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2024-09-11T02:35:59Z
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