Richard Allen born February 14, 1760 and died March 26, 1831, was an African-American minister, educator, writer, and one of America’s most active and influential black leaders.
In 1794, he founded the African Methodist Episcopal Church (AME), the first independent black denomination in the United States. He opened his first AME church in 1794 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Elected the first bishop of the AME Church in 1816, Allen focused on organizing a denomination where free blacks could worship without racial oppression and where slaves could find a measure of dignity.
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