This page presents photos of just a few of the many Black Americans who have influenced American and world history. Left to right starting from top left: Sojourner Truth, abolitionist and woman’s rights activist; Frederick Douglass, preacher, abolitionist, author and statesman; Harriet Tubman, abolitionist, humanitarian and woman’s rights activist; an unidentified Black Civil War soldier; An early photo of a baptism conducted by a Black congregation in the Church of God (Cleveland, TN); Booker T. Washington, educator and activist; George Washington Carver, scientist, botanist, inventor and educator (seated front center); James Weldon Johnson, author, song writer, diplomat and NAACP leader; Matthew Henson, world explorer and first man to reach the earth’s geographic North Pole; Rosa Parks, civil rights activist who led the fight against segregated public transportation; Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., preacher and civil rights leader; Shirley Chisholm, first Black woman to be elected to Congress; Thurgood Marshall, Chief Counsel to the NAACP, first Black United States Solicitor General, first Black U.S. Supreme Court Justice; General Colin Powell, first Black Chairman of The Joint Chiefs of Staff, first Black Secretary of State; Dr. Ben Carson, world famous neurosurgeon and motivational author; Pastor Emeritus, Bishop William R. Kilby & Reverend Rose Kilby, Pastoral Team for 27 years, Silver Spring Church of God, Silver Spring, MD; Bishop Livingston Rolle & First Lady Janice Rolle, Current Pastoral Team, Silver Spring Church of God, Silver Spring, MD.
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Photo from the 1922 Annual Assembly “Colored Work,” Jacksonville, FL. At the request of Church of God (Cleveland, TN) black ministers, in 1922 The General Assembly appointed a black overseer over all of its black churches in the United States. The “Church of God Colored Work,” as it became known, credentialed ministers, planted churches and held annual assemblies. In 1966, The General Assembly for the entire Church of God declared “The Colored Work” to be incompatible with human rights, and integrated all of the ministries. LEARN MORE
