Mainstream Settlement House Movement Case Study

October 5, 1889 was the day Charles became the first ordained black Seventh-Day Adventist preacher. And on February 16, 1890 Charles helped create the second black Seventh-Day Adventist church in the world. Shortly after Charles went to go help the first black Seventh-day Adventist Church in Edgefield Junction, Tennessee. In Edgefield Junction Charles worked for the General Conference. The General Conference invited Charles to speak at the Battle Creek, Michigan

Similarly, as purposefully as our first Methodist fathers and mothers fought the establishment that supported slavery, we missed a golden opportunity when we insisted on segregating our congregations. Because of our ignorance and fear, the new Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church (later to be the AME) was created by Bishop Richard Allen in response to racial injustices within the walls of St. Georges Methodist Episcopal church. “The African Methodist Episcopal Church has a unique history as it is the first major religious denomination in the western world that developed

In 1816, Richard Allen founded the first African-American led church in the country, the African Methodist Episcopal Church. The African Methodist Episcopal Church was the first major religious denomination in the western world that originated because of sociological and not theological differences. It was the first African-American denomination organized and incorporated in the US. The church was established in what was known as the Blacksmith Shop Meeting House. “By 1786 blacks made up about 10 percent of the Methodist church in the United States, and though whites and blacks often worshiped together, blacks enjoyed no real freedom or equality. Segregated seating was typical; the area reserved for blacks was usually called the “Negro Pew” or the “African Corner.”

Sernett, Milton C. Bound for the Promised Land: African American Religion and the Great Migration. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press Books, 1997. Explores the role of the Great Migration in transforming black churches into centers for social activism.

"The Black church functioned as revolutionary unity during slavery." The African Methodist Episcopal Church, not formally organized until 1816 but dates back to 1787 refused to abide by the Jim Crow laws. In protest, they all left the church and established their own genre of worship. The founders of the African Methodist church were uneducated, illiterate ex-slaves. Despite that, they had a clear sense of their dignity and worth. They rejected the irrational treatment of their White counterparts, who considered them as a nuisance in the Church. Whites wanted to keep Africans within the church separate. They even created legal obstacles for separation. As a result, the African Methodist formed independent churches in Maryland, Delaware, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, etc. The African Methodist Episcopal Church was able to provide for its self, in its early stages, within twelve years (1841 to 1853) the Church built and remodeled two churches, which cost about $16,000. The A.M.E. Church has given African people an independent hierarchy that recognizes our individuality, it has empowered African-Americans. In celebration, Methodists sought to render services to their people, schools were built and charitable programs were developed, aiming to lift the spirits of the new freed men. Educating their people, young and old, were

The African Meeting House was used for many purposes during the 1800's that was essential to blacks in Boston and helped the mission of antislavery reformers. The meeting house first served as a church founded by Thomas Paul, an African American preacher, in 1805. The church was named the First African Baptist Church. Although, black Bostonians were able to attend white churches, they faced discrimination and were put in assigned seats in the balconies. The creation of the church gave blacks the opportunity to worship freely away from anti black sentiment. The meeting house was constructed entirely on black labor, but funds were raised in white and black communities. The church was meant to be only attended by the black population , but a

Not to be outdone were the Louisiana Baptist which were evangelizing whites and Negroes all over the

For any civilization or colony to develop, there will be obstacles that get in the way of settling. Early civilizations like ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia, and Indus Valley all dealt with difficulties of creating an advanced system of living. When early settlers sailed to the New World, they attempted to create settlements. Many failed, but some persevered through the obstacles that faced them. Charles Town, South Carolina was one of the settlements that was successful. This colony was the first settlement to be developed in South Carolina. Charles Town was named after King Charles II who granted the Carolina's to Eight Lord Proprietors. Lord Proprietor Anthony Ashley Cooper had an idea of creating a large port town that could import and export goods with Great Britain. He developed the colony at Albemarle Point on the Ashley River in 1670. It was later renamed Charles Town in honor of the King. Making Charles Town a successful colony was not easy. Why was settling in Charles Town difficult? Charles Town was difficult to settle because of the layouts of maps, resources, and diseases.

It also became one of the centers of black conversion. Philadelphia was one of the biggest free black communities of the colonies and it became an early center where African Americans could practice religious freedom. While on the tour we walked past Philadelphia’s first African American church, Mother Bethel Church, established in the late eighteenth century. This church was founded by a slave named Richard Allen and has a long history of civil rights issues. It was one of the first churches to let African Americans practice their faith

David Walker, a black man born to a free mother and a slave father. His date of birth is unknown, but it is said to be around 1796. He was born in Wilmington, North Carolina. He doesn't say much about Wilmington, but we know, in Wilmington, black slaves’ outnumbered whites and blacks and attended church regularly. His boyhood in Wilmington began to shape his views about slavery and religion. He left Wilmington a young literate man and moved to Charleston, South Carolina. Here, there was a large free black population. The free blacks there formed the African Methodist Episcopal Church. The existence of the church caused tensions to rise and authorities tried to suppress the church, which only made the blacks resist more. They were eventually

The Progressive Era was a time of social work, the struggle for women’s rights, and millions of immigrants expanding into the United States. During the era, there was many poverty stricken neighborhoods. Poverty reforms were created to help poverty in the U.S., one of them being settlement houses. Settlement houses were influenced by Toynbee Hall in London. Their idea was that students and wealthy people should “settle” in impoverished neighborhood and provide services and improve the lives of the neighborhoods and those living in them. Settlement houses were designed to help the poor, including immigrants, with the help of middle class workers, in an effort to improve the neighborhoods in the poorest parts of the cities.

Peter Randolph, too, presented the durable linkage between African-Americans, especially during slavery. Their alliance was characterized by creating the so called, “plantation churches” whenever they could not attend the actual church services. By doing so, they could simply gather together, remember their traditions, dance, sing, recite their prayers, sorrows or play banjo. All those familiar activities were helping them hold on to their culture, refine their identity and avoid the “Social Death” or “Cultural Genocide” they were subjected to. Similarly, creating the AME Church, along with following churches, such as the Ethiopian Church of Jesus Christ, was a method of showing to the society that the African history and beliefs are not forgotten.

Since the arrival of African Americans in this country blacks have always had differing experiences. Consequently, African-Americans have had to forge a self-identity out of what has been passed on to them as fact about their true selves. History has wrought oppression and subjugation to this particular race of people and as a result, certain institutions were formed in order aid African-Americans, culturally, spiritually and economically. The African-American Church has served of one such institution. From the time of slavery, though outlawed, many slaves found ways to congregate and form their own "churches", away from the one-sided and bias lessons about the bible that they were being taught in the white church. The white ministers and

Nowadays, in a growing number of housewives who came out of their family and became a worker, we unconsciously admitted the phenomenon that women and men are no gender differences. Under this recognition, we focused more on class equality instead of gender equality. However, in Maria Mies’s Colonization and Housewifization, she questioned about this dissertation by giving examples and facts.

ARC’s settlement modernization initiative – what has changed? What a difference 2-3 years makes. Project Orion was a technology upgrade to change how ARC would manage the business. ARC did not have all the strategic building blocks needed to be as forward looking as the industry requires. Orion was going to modernize legacy systems that (1) manage customer information and (2) manage settlement. Currently, anytime ARC makes a change, these legacy platforms require 1 year lead time and a million dollar budget. ARC could not move existing technology to a new platform as it would remain inflexible and prevent quick responses to customer requests. ARC hit the pause button on Orion and returned to fact finding with our customers. We spoke with our trusted relationship contacts which are primarily revenue accounting teams. They provided excellent operational suggestions to shed legacy processes such as area banks or other legacy features that are no longer relevant.