Historical Black Churches Survive to Tell Their Own Stories

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e Civil War, and was crumpled by the Mayfield tornado will receive $100,000. They are the first recipient of the projects’ special emergency funding.</p><p id="e9db">The edifice of this church was practically destroyed with little to no hope of being restored due to its small elderly membership and needed much help for the church’s survival.</p><p id="ca62">The Black churches especially after slavery became the focal point of many lives and provide solace for many Blacks during hard times dealing with racism, discrimination, and denial of equal opportunity. The church was a place to congregate, find spiritual salvation, guidance, and even served as schools or whatever the Black community needed it to be.</p><p id="b4a5">Black churches have been the foundation or the backbone of the Black community for ages through generations of faith and struggle. Black churches’ preservation represents preserving the history of civil rights and racial justice.</p><p id="1e4a">The goal of this funding project to preserve Black churches will assist more than 50 Black churches nationwide in the next three years. Even ones that are vacant or set for demolition or presently houses community centers or treatment programs that are struggling due to lack of funding, aging members, and dwindling membership will receive assistance.</p><p id="c3dd">Seventy million has been raised by the Action Fund and thus far have stood in the gap saving more than 200 preservation projects nationwide. This fund started by the National Trust for Historic Preservation is their largest venture to preserve sites linked to African American history.</p><p id="c749"><b>In conclusion</b>, the spent dollars for preserving churches and other African American Historic sites are dollars well spent for a worthy cause. It is a cause that will teach Black generations to come the true history of the African American heritage and experience throughout the country. Historical African American Churches have a legacy that needs to be told, championed, and remember

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ed thanks to the efforts of the Lilly Endowment.</p><p id="95ee">For additional reads:</p><div id="727c" class="link-block"> <a href="https://readmedium.com/willie-oree-the-first-black-nhl-player-trailblazer-aad009ee4406"> <div> <div> <h2>Willie O’Ree- The First Black NHL Player Trailblazer</h2> <div><h3>How one man changes the face of hockey being the Black player.</h3></div> <div><p>medium.com</p></div> </div> <div> <div style="background-image: url(https://miro.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:320/0*GwarpFEi2kR6Dq-N.jpg)"></div> </div> </div> </a> </div><div id="0cae" class="link-block"> <a href="https://readmedium.com/america-needs-balance-between-the-lie-and-the-truth-13dc9ca8b7bb"> <div> <div> <h2>America Needs to Tell the Truth</h2> <div><h3>How the truth will set America free from racial bondage.</h3></div> <div><p>medium.com</p></div> </div> <div> <div style="background-image: url(https://miro.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:320/0*OkZse8Q9tIZ4GeLp.jpg)"></div> </div> </div> </a> </div><div id="bccb" class="link-block"> <a href="https://readmedium.com/celebrating-the-legacy-of-lucy-harris-a-basketball-phenomena-3a2eb7c02572"> <div> <div> <h2>Celebrating the Legacy of Lucy Harris-a Basketball Phenomena</h2> <div><h3>How a Delta State legend, Lucy Harris, became a basketball pioneer and trailblazer.</h3></div> <div><p>medium.com</p></div> </div> <div> <div style="background-image: url(https://miro.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:320/0*-Gb2iqpbuKsJaA_f)"></div> </div> </div> </a> </div></article></body>

How one fund has made it their mission to prevent Black churches from disappearing.

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Mother Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina is the church where a white supremacist killed nine parishioners during a Bible study in 2015 as they trustingly allowed this white supremacist to join them in bible study.

Since that time, the church had struggled financially as their doors were about to close and before doing so they received funding that allowed them to remain solvent. In the recent past, also funding was allocated for the preservation of Bethel Baptist Church in Birmingham, a stalwart of the civil rights movement that was bombed in the 1950s.

Preserving the cultural heritage of historic congregations, $20 million was allocated to safeguard the preservation of these Black churches across the nation as they remain to tell their story and their own history.

Lilly Endowment Incorporation’s goal is to support religious, educational, charitable causes, and the preservation of the Black Churches Project according to the National Trust for Historic Preservation.

They have spearheaded their support via the African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund where $20 million donations will help congregations, including a church in Mayfield, Kentucky that was slammed by the tornado that killed more than 20 people last month. Their seed funding is for the preservation of the Black Churches Project

These historic Black churches have a unique history that will now be able to be shared due to the funding from the Lilly Endowment, Inc.

One church, St. James African Methodist Episcopal Church, was founded in 1868 three years after the Civil War, and was crumpled by the Mayfield tornado will receive $100,000. They are the first recipient of the projects’ special emergency funding.

The edifice of this church was practically destroyed with little to no hope of being restored due to its small elderly membership and needed much help for the church’s survival.

The Black churches especially after slavery became the focal point of many lives and provide solace for many Blacks during hard times dealing with racism, discrimination, and denial of equal opportunity. The church was a place to congregate, find spiritual salvation, guidance, and even served as schools or whatever the Black community needed it to be.

Black churches have been the foundation or the backbone of the Black community for ages through generations of faith and struggle. Black churches’ preservation represents preserving the history of civil rights and racial justice.

The goal of this funding project to preserve Black churches will assist more than 50 Black churches nationwide in the next three years. Even ones that are vacant or set for demolition or presently houses community centers or treatment programs that are struggling due to lack of funding, aging members, and dwindling membership will receive assistance.

Seventy million has been raised by the Action Fund and thus far have stood in the gap saving more than 200 preservation projects nationwide. This fund started by the National Trust for Historic Preservation is their largest venture to preserve sites linked to African American history.

In conclusion, the spent dollars for preserving churches and other African American Historic sites are dollars well spent for a worthy cause. It is a cause that will teach Black generations to come the true history of the African American heritage and experience throughout the country. Historical African American Churches have a legacy that needs to be told, championed, and remembered thanks to the efforts of the Lilly Endowment.

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