The Encyclopaedia of the African Methodist Episcopal Church
Subtitle: containing principally the biographies of the men and women, both ministers and laymen, whose labors during a hundred and sixty years, helped make the AME Church what it is : also short historical sketches of annual conferences, educational institutions, general departments, missionary societies of the AME Church, and general information about historical, theological, sociological, legal and other matters concerning African Methodism and the Christian church in general
By: compiled by R.R. Wright, Jr., assisted by associate editors, W. A. Fountain [et al.] ; introduction by William A. Fountain ; foreward by Reverdy Cassius Ransom
Edition: 2nd ed.
Series: Black biographical dictionaries, 1790-1950 -- no. 294.
Publisher: [s.n]
Published: 1947
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 688
Subjects: History; African American Methodists; Biography; African Americans; African Methodist Episcopal Church
Other titles: Centennial encyclopedia of the African Methodist Episcopal Church.
Notes: First ed., 1916, has title: Centennial encyclopedia of the African Methodist Episcopal Church.

Electronic reproduction. Alexandria, Va. : Chadwyck-Healey, 2015. (Black biographical dictionaries, 1790-1850 ; no. 294)