| 词条 | Ulysses L. Houston |
| 释义 |
and was an influential community organizer in Savannah, Georgia's African-American community during the mid-19th century.[2] He was born a slave in Grahamville, South Carolina, and was taken by his master Moses Henderson to Savannah, where he served as a house servant.[2] According to the book Redeeming the South religious cultures and racial identities among Southern Baptists: "He learned to read from white sailors while he worked in the city's hospital and earned money by hiring out his time."[2] Licensed to preach in 1855, he was the pastor of the Third African Baptist Church (later renamed the First Bryan Baptist Church) in Savannah, Georgia, a congregation of about 400,[2] from 1861 to 1889.[3] He was twice president of the black Baptist convention in Georgia.[2] Houston was one of the Original 33 African American legislators of the Reconstruction era in Georgia, expelled or forced to resign. He was also one of the 16 freedmen church leaders who met with Union General William Tecumseh Sherman in 1865.[4] See also
References1. ^{{cite book|last1=Elmore|first1=Charles J.|title=Savannah Georgia|date=2002|publisher=Arcadia Pub.|location=Charleston, S.C.|isbn=073851408X|page=31}} {{authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Houston, Ulysses}}{{GeorgiaUS-politician-stub}}2. ^1 2 3 4 {{cite book|last1=Harvey|first1=Paul|title=Redeeming the South religious cultures and racial identities among Southern Baptists, 1865-1925|date=1997|publisher=University of North Carolina Press|location=Chapel Hill|isbn=0807861952|page=56}} 3. ^{{cite web|url=https://www.fbbcsav.org/timeline|title=FBBC Timeline|accessdate=October 1, 2018}} 4. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.freedmen.umd.edu/savmtg.htm|title=Minutes of an interview between the colored ministers and church officers at Savannah, Georgia with the Secretary of War and Major General Sherman |date=January 12, 1865}} 7 : African-American Baptist ministers|19th-century African-American activists|Original 33|African-American politicians during the Reconstruction Era|People from Jasper County, Georgia|African-American state legislators in Georgia (U.S. state)|People from Jasper County, South Carolina |
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