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Podcast: Proclamation Station
Episode: Black Christian History: Bishop Richard Allen
Description: “Why can’t we have our own church?” That question stood at the heart of a painful and defining moment in American church history. Reverend Richard Allen and other African American worshippers at St. George’s Methodist Church in Philadelphia were forced to confront discrimination when they were manhandled and ordered to sit in a newly established segregated section during worship. Rather than accept humiliation, they walked out.From that courageous decision grew a movement that would shape generations. Richard Allen would go on to help found what became the African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church, creating a place wh...