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1773
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First known black Baptist church is founded in Sliver Bluff, South
Carolina; other congregations soon form in Georgia and Virginia
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1780
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Lemuel Haynes begins to preach at a
Congregational church in Connecticut, making him the first African American
minister of a predominantly white congregation
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1794
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First African American church congregations in the North are
established: the African Episcopal Church of St.
Thomas and the Bethel A.M.E. Church, both
in Philadelphia
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1816
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Richard Allen becomes the first African American bishop when he is
elected at the general convention of the A.M.E. Church in
Philadelphia
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1875
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James Healy is elected the first
African American Roman Catholic bishop; presides over the diocese of
Portland, Maine
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1964
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Prince Taylor becomes the first black Methodist bishop to head a
predominantly white district, in New Jersey
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Dr. Edler Garnet Hawkins becomes the first African American moderator
of the United Presbyterian Church
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1969
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Thomas Kilgore Jr. becomes the first African American president of the
predominantly white American Baptist
Convention
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1970
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John M. Burgess is installed as the first black bishop to head an
Episcopal diocese in the United States (Massachusetts)
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1972
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W. Sterling Cary becomes the first black president of
the National Council of Churches
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1976
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Dr. Joseph H. Evans is elected the first African American president of
the predominantly white Church of Christ
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