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1715: 31: 1725: 502: 227:, formed in the early 19th century as the first independent black denomination in the United States. He rose rapidly through its ranks, being ordained elder in 1883 and elected as a bishop in 1908. In addition to being a minister, he was an active organizer and fundraiser, held appointments to numerous missions, and from 1888 attended all A.M.E. general conferences as delegate. 159:
children. As slaves, Heard's parents were prohibited from legally recognized marriage. Also, they were held by planters on separate estates some three miles apart, so could not live together. George Heard was given permission by his owners to visit his family twice a week when his labor was not required (overnight, Wednesday-Thursday: Sunday).
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Heard continued to be active in the affairs of his church for the rest of his life. He attended the second World Conference on Faith and Order in Edinburgh, Scotland, a month before his death. In response to reports circulating in the press that he had been refused accommodation by an Edinburgh hotel
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But, dissatisfied with the education he was receiving, he returned to his father's shop to work. By this time a school had been set up in Elberton for freedmen and their children, which he could attend. By following every opportunity for education, Heard in time achieved a teaching qualification and
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After emancipation, while living with his father, Heard paid a white schoolboy ten cents a lesson to teach him basic literacy. He also began working for a local farmer, earning five dollars a month. He also arranged to recite back to him a lesson Heard had learned over lunch. This farmer was William
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As a young child Heard was sold twice with his family: his mother and three siblings Millie, Beverley and Cordelia. Their youngest brother, George Clark Heard, was born later. When he was nine and working as a servant in the household where his mother was a cook, both she and his elder sister died of
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on February 21, 1895. While in Monrovia, Heard also served as superintendent of the Liberia Annual Conference of the A.M.E. Church. He built the first A.M.E. church in the city, the Eliza Turner Memorial Chapel. Before returning to America, he toured Europe, observing during a visit to the British
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William Heard's mother was an enslaved woman, Pathenia or Parthenia Galloway (d. circa 1859). She was skilled in plowing, but she was also valued by her owners as a "breeder" (a woman who regularly produced children). She was allowed to work close to her own cabin in order to nurse and care for her
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He also continued to press for equal treatment for all citizens, regardless of color. In 1887 Heard launched a legal challenge against the Georgia Railroad Company over its practice of providing separate and inferior accommodation for blacks while charging them full prices.
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Museum that the mummies of Ancient Egypt were clearly of African, not Caucasian, ethnicity. He said that racial prejudice was less strong in France than in any English-speaking country, and seemed non-existent in Switzerland.
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At fifteen, having been assaulted by a drunken "boss man" and becoming aware of the potential ending of his slave status after the Civil War, he fled and began living with his father. He kept a wheelwright's shop in
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1870 census, Elberton, Georgia:"George Heard; 57; male; mulatto; wheelwright;b. Georgia;(personal estate)$ 50; unable to read; unable to write; U.S. citizen" - www.familysearch.org
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H. Heard, from whom Heard took his surname (he had previously been known only as "Henry"). Heard attempted a similar arrangement with another local farmer.
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William H. Heard died in Philadelphia on September 12, 1937. His death was reported in major newspapers both in the United States and in Britain.
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until 1877, when white Democrats regained control of the state government and prohibited black students from attending the flagship college.
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Josephine D. Henderson married William Henry Heard, January 21, 1882 in Clarke, Georgia.
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See death certificate of George Clarke Heard, 25 September 1920, Clarke, Georgia, U.S.A.
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In 1878 Heard, whose parents had followed Baptist and Methodist faiths, joined the
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on grounds of color, he was invited to meet the Chancellor of the Exchequer,
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From Slavery to the Bishopric in the A.M.E. Church, An Autobiography
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From Slavery to the Bishopric in the A.M.E. Church, An Autobiography
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Elbert County, Georgia
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Republican
African Methodist Episcopal
United States Ambassador to Liberia
Elbert County, Georgia
mixed race
Stephen Heard
typhoid fever
Elberton
University of South Carolina
Reconstruction era
South Carolina
South Carolina Senate
Abbeville County
Philadelphia
African Methodist Episcopal Church
Henry McNeal Turner
Grover Cleveland
Sir John Simon
Archbishop of York
Josephine Delphine Henderson

From Slavery to the Bishopric in the A.M.E. Church, An Autobiography by William H. Heard
The Political Graveyard: Heard Family



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