 | Freedom's Prophet: Bishop Richard Allen, the AME Church, and the Black Founding Fathers by Richard Newman
Buy new: $32.03 / Used from: $20.00 This is the latest book on Richard Allen. I can't wait to read it. I have read the now out-of-print 'Richard Allen: Religious Leader and Social Activist' by Steve Klots ISBN number 15554 65706. Klots' book is a must read for A.M.E. members and ministers and you can get a hold of a copy via inter-library-loan.
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 | Rosa Parks: A Life by Douglas Brinkley
Buy new: $11.05 / Used from: $3.62 Consistent with Richard Allen's refusal to tolerate a segregated church, Rosa Park refused to tolerate segregated buses in Montgomery, Alabama. Douglas Brinkley is a superb author who does his subject justice!
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 | Black Titan: A.G. Gaston and the Making of a Black American Millionaire by Carol Jenkins
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $6.42 A.G. Gaston worked hard and became a success, even in racist Alabama during Jim Crow. Want to succeed in business but you don't have a college degree? Read this biography of A.G. Gaston's life and see how he opened and ran business after business, including a business school.
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 | Vision of Beauty: The Story of Sarah Breedlove Walker by Kathryn Lasky
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $1.58 This is the story of Madame C.J. Walker, the 1st African American female millionaire who invented the pressing comb and other hair care products.
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 | Harriet Tubman: The Road to Freedom by Catherine Clinton
Buy new: $10.19 / Used from: $3.44 Harriet Tubman has been a lifetime hero of mine. She was so smart as a conductor on the underground railroad and led many slaves to freedom!
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 | Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom (Caldecott Honor Book) by Carole Boston Weatherford
Buy new: $6.40 / Used from: $4.65 A smart woman who risked her life countless times to lead slaves to freedom.
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 | Fever 1793 by Laurie Halse Anderson
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $0.01 A relationship of respect between free Black Eliza and coffeehouse owner's daughter Matilda. Praise given for the work of the Free African Society founded by Richard Allen and Absalom Jones for giving Aid to Yellow Fever victims and their families during the plague that raged for 3 months in Philadelphia and killed 5,000 people.
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 | African American Religious Leaders (Black Stars) by Jim Haskins
Buy new: $6.05 / Used from: $5.07 Learn how Denmark Vessey left the Presbyterian church and joined the African Methodist Episcopal Church. You'll also learn more about AME Founder Richard Allen.
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 | Songs of Zion: The African Methodist Episcopal Church in the United States and South Africa by James T. Campbell
Buy new: $24.75 / Used from: $4.82 See also the book "Richard Allen: The First Exemplar of African American Education" by E. Curtis Alexander ISBN 09388 18066.
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 | With One Voice by Ramsey Lewis
Buy new: $11.94 / Used from: $6.15 Jazz great Ramsey Lewis grew up in an A.M.E. Church and this is his first jazz gospel CD. Start at the beginning with track 1's 'Oh Happy Day'. Tracks 1 through 4 are a leisurely warm up to track 5 -- a joyful, first traditional, then jazzy gospel version of the old hymn 'Pass Me Not'. Enjoy!
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 | Amazing Grace
Buy new: $14.99 / Used from: $2.10 William Wilberforce was not an A.M.E. member. Rather, he was the abolitionist who battled the British slave trade. Wilberforce University is the A.M.E. university located in Wilberforce, Ohio near Dayton and Xenia. Watch this movie and learn about the great namesake of Wilberforce University. Note: W.E.B. DuBois taught at Wilberforce.
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 | Facing the Giants (Widescreen)
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $3.98 Richard Allen was a Christian minister, and the founder and first bishop of the A.M.E. Church. If Allen were alive today, he would enjoy 'Facing the Giants' because of its Godly message. Enjoy!
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