Black and white photograph of participants in a fundraising competition for Antioch A.M.E. Church, taken around 1957. Whoever sold the most items was crowned the queen. Top [left to right]: Dorothy Sheffield, Cynthia Brown, Pat Stephens, Lena Harper,…
Newspaper article from the DeKalb New Era discussing the relocation of Antioch A.M.E. Church's bell for the nation's bicentennial. The piece includes a black and white photograph of an Antioch A.M.E. Church member moving the bell.
Souvenir program of the Atlanta Georgia Annual Conference of the Sixth Episcopal District of the African Methodist Episcopal Church held at Antioch A.M.E. Church in 1958. The program includes the church officials presiding over the conference, a…
In this handwritten account, Lena Harper tells the history of Antioch A.M.E. Church. Harper writes that the church was organized in 1868 at the end of the Civil War and practiced in the home of Mrs. Louise Bratcher. The church raised $400 and built a…
In this handwritten account, Lena Harper tells the history of Antioch A.M.E. Church as of July 14, 1957. Harper writes that Antioch A.M.E. Church began in 1868. at the end of the Civil War and beginning of Reconstruction in the South. With no…
In this handwritten account, Lena Harper tells the history of Antioch A.M.E. Church as of July 1961. Harper writes that Antioch A.M.E. Church began in 1898, at the end of the Civil War and beginning of Reconstruction in the South. With no building to…