Most of the first Black congregations and churches formed before 1800 were founded by free Blacks. The oldest Black Baptist church in Kentucky, and third oldest in the United States, was founded about 1790 by the slave Peter Durrett.
After slavery was abolished, segregationist attitudes in both the North and the South discouraged and even prevented African-Americans from worshiping in the same churches as Whites. Freed Blacks most often established congregations and church facilities separate from their white neighbors, who were often their former masters. These new churches created communities and worship practices that were culturally distinct from other churches, including unique and empowering forms of Christianity that hybridized African spiritual traditions. [Read more…]
The Harlem Globetrotters were originally known as the Chicago Globetrotters from 1926-27 to 1928-29 before their transformation into the Harlem Globetrotters 1929 – Present.
York was born the son of Old York and Rose who were the slaves of John Clark lll, William Clark’s father. York was William Clark’s lifelong body servant willed to him by his Father on July 24th, 1799. He born sometime in 1770 in Ladysmith, Caroline County Virginia and passed away some time before 1832.