Church Figures
Served as chaplain of the US Senate
Rev. Barry Black
Unofficial song/ hymn of black history
“Lift Every Voice and Sing”
The HBCU teachers college of NC
Fayetteville State University
This woman saved her son from being killed by placing him in the Nile River
Zipporah
Artist who declared that Jesus is indeed the reason for the season
Kirk Franklin
A part of the A.M.E. Zion Church and known as “Black Moses”
Harriett Tubman
This HBCU was originally inspired as a school to teach minister and teachers due to the founders’ relationship with the black church and his father pastoring a church near by.
North Carolina Central University
School of the former Vice President of the US
Howard University
A black man from Ethiopia takes the Gospel back home to his country in what book?
Acts
The Queen of Gospel Music
Mahalia Jackson
Preacher who led a rebellion of slaves in Virginia inspired by the Bible and God
Nat Turner
According to Dr. Howard Thurman, Jesus is on the side of____
The disinherited
First HBCU in the southeast
Shaw University
Book that gives us a description of Christ bronze skin
Revelation
Caravans group singer and pastor who ministers in Raleigh,NC.
Pastor Shirley Caesar
The inspiration behind the “I Have A Dream” portion the famous speech
Rev Parthia Hall
Number of chapters in Slave Bible
232 Chapters
Started in the basement of a Baptist Church in Georgia
Morehouse College
Simon of Cyrene, a black man, helps Jesus carry the cross in which book?
Gospel of Luke
Famous founder of the National Gospel Music Workshop of America and famous singer, composer, artist.
James Cleveland
This A.M.E. Bishop was the first to say that God is black
Bishop Henry McNeil Turner
Book of the Bible used by our ancestors to illustrate their story as a people
Exodus
First HBCU
Cheney University
Bible used by community in South Carolina composed of their dialect
Gullah Bible
Minister of Worship of New Birth Baptist Church of GA and famous artist
Jonathan Nelson