Index
[ 221 ] index Abbell, Maxwell, 135, 136, 138, 139, 140, 142 Abbott, Robert S., 7, 37, 55, 66 Abernathy, Ralph D., 163, 170, 176 Abner, Willoughby, 168 Abraham Schwartz Award, 148 Abyssinian Baptist Church (New York City), 64, 72, 150 Acts, Book of, 46 Adams, Sherman, 124, 125, 130, 131, 136 Addams, Jane, 8, 30, 32 AFL-CIO, 164 Africa, 47, 75, 166 African American clergy, 35; embrace of grassroots mobilization, 163; political involvement, 22; as spokespersons for African Americans, 26; view of role in public square, 72 African Americans, 118, 123; disenfranchisement of, 21, 22, 25; efforts to attain civil rights, 159; growth in number of jobs held by, 137; housing discrimination against, 121; job discrimination against, 137; leaders as members of “talented tenth,” 43; in Manhattan, 137; migration from the South in the twentieth century, 26; politics in leadership, 39; as potential candidates for election to Congress, 107; as professional politicians, 26; as Republicans, 22, 103, 121, 124; in WWII army, 69 African Methodism, 22, 23, 90, 94, 180; in Georgia, 19 African Methodism in the South (Wesley J. Gaines), 16 Akron Informer, 129 Alabama, 74, 124 Alabama Annual Conference, 19 Alabama State College, 169 All National Deliverance Day of Prayer, 163 Allen, Alexander J., 91, 139–40 Allen, B. F., 49 Allen, Richard, 4, 10–11, 22, 83, 92, 147 Allen University, 75, 160 Alpha Day, 171 Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity, 82, 169, 171, 182; Theta Chapter of Chicago, 82 AME Church, 4, 8, 10, 24, 27, 30, 32, 47, 57, 63, 67, 83, 84, 85, 147; in Chicago, 13, 45, 46; clergy in politics, 21–22; Connectional Council in Chicago, 69, 86, 88, 89, 110; Council of Bishops, 91; eclipsed by other Christian denominations, 110; Fifth Episcopal District of, 51; Five Million Dollar and Evangelical Campaign, 49; in Florida, 24; Fourteenth Episcopal District of, 35, 48, 49, 50, 51; Fourth District of, 33, 37, 52, 54, 55, 58, 65, 87, 91; Frankfurt District of, 49; in Georgia, 15, 16, 18, 19, 22, 33; Judicial Council, 119; Lexington (Ky.) district of, 48, 49; Marietta (Ga.) district of, 18; Ministerial Alliance in Chicago,58, 110; Ministers’ Alliance, 96; Pension Department, 88; Tennessee district of, 47; Sixth Episcopal District of, 19; South Carolina district of, 25; work to advance black interests in civic affairs, 51 AME Church Review, 50, 51, 57, 88, 106 AME General Conferences, 48, 54, 69; Episcopal Committee of, 33, 34, 87; General Board of, index [ 222 ] 87, 89; General Conference Commission, 34, 52, 54; meeting of 1876, 17; meeting of 1880, 6; meeting of 1900, 33; meeting of 1904, 33; meeting of 1912, 33; meeting of 1916, 33, 39; meeting of 1920, 34, 49; meeting of 1924, 47, 48, 50, 51, 52, 65; meeting of 1928, 52, 55, 56; meeting of 1944, 68; meeting of 1948, 87, 88, 89; meeting of 1952, 87; meeting of 1956, 85, 87, 89, 92; meeting of 1960, 90; meeting of 1964, 115, 157; Revisions Committee of, 87. See also individual state conferences AME Zion Church, 3, 47, 63, 64, 84, 88, 93, 102; Ministerial Alliance, 110 “America (My Country ’Tis of Thee),” 54, 118–19 American Committee on Africa, 166 American Foundation on Nonviolence, 172 American Labor Party, 64 American Missionary Association, 19 American Veterans Committee, 68 Americans for Democratic Action, 160 Anchorage, Ky., 160 Anderson, Isaac, 22 Anderson, Louis B., 43, 56 Anderson, Victor, 13 Anti-Defamation League, 139 Antilynching laws, 118 Archibald J. Carey Jr. Scholarship, 91 Arizona, 157, 158 Arkansas, 56 Arkansas Shorter College, 90 Armed forces: as campaign issue for Eisenhower, 124; desegregation of, 118, 121, 149 Armour, Philip D., 28 Arnett, Bishop Benjamin W., 27, 30, 40, 85 Arnett Church, 55 Ashland, Ky., 47, 51 Asia, 75, 119 Athens, Ga., 10, 20, 23 Atlanta, Ga., 15, 16, 17, 19, 123, 137, 145; Board of Education, 64; City Council, 22 Atlanta Life Insurance, 151 Atlanta University, 19, 23, 64, 66, 93, 138 Aurora, Ill., 53 Austin, J. C., 72, 150 Avery AME Zion Church (Pittsburgh), 47 Avery Chapel AME Church, 72 Baber, Bishop George W., 68, 72, 86, 87, 89, 92, 110, 112, 115 Bailey, A. Leon, 180 Baldwin, Kit, 86 Baltimore, Md., 16, 35, 80 Baltimore Afro-American, 109 Banfield, Edward, 103 Banks Street Baptist Church (Norfolk, Va.), 33 Banta, W. B., 124–25 Baptist Church, 27, 123 Baptist Ministers and Laymen’s Conference, 149 Barnett, Ferdinand, 39 Bates, Daisy, 177 Batteast, Margaret W., 86 Beard, Jesse E., 88 Beaumont, Tex., 75...
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