From the Atlanta Daily World:

MARIAN ANDERSON FEBRUARY 14 1760—The great religious leader Rich­ard Allen is born in slavery in Philadel­phia. After being required to sit in the back of a White church, Allen would go on to help found and become the first ac­tive bishop of the African Methodist Epis­copal Church. Today, the church, one of the largest predominantly … Continued

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