Episode 2: Wesley AME Church: Strategies for Thriving, The Role of the Black Church

from Making a Homeplace: The Historically Black Neighborhood of Swarthmore · host Philadelphia Folklore Project

For 130+ years, the Historically Black Neighborhood of Swarthmore’s community members strategically pulled together within the larger white Borough. Folks brought along religious beliefs & practices rooted in traditions of the African Methodist Episcopalian (AME) Church. In 1921, a fledgling congregation worshiped in Jones Hall at 246 Bowdoin Ave. They then bought land at 232 […]

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