
The “Black Church History” web site was created in 2024 as a result of the many black people who are bashing the black church. This web site was designed to host historical information pertaining to black churches in America and the churches’ role in helping black Americans gain Civil Rights.
It is hard to miss the negative rhetoric coming from black people on social media outlets, whether they have large or small followings, talk negatively about the black church, giving reasons for why they do not belong or attend. Not only does their influence carry the possibility to discourage other black people from attending church, they totally by-pass the "root" for how they now have the Rights to be on white owned, white run media outs, “freely” saying all types of things. While they bad mouth the black church they totally leave out/overlook the monumental efforts and sacrifices made by black Christians and the black church; efforts that now enable them to be free to move around in the white world; efforts that gave them Civil Rights which now enables them to marry white people, vote, or freely cuss at the police.
This web site was created to remind black America that the Civil Rights they now enjoy was born out of the black church. Prior to and during the height of the Civil Rights Movement, all throughout the south, the north, the east and the west, there were black churches that hosted meetings and spiritual gatherings for those advocates involved in the Civil Rights Movement. Civil Rights marches, sit-ins, demonstrations were dangerous task, and many blacks were hurt and killed by whites. But through prayer, God delivered our people from bondage.
This web site was created to “help” fill the void for all of the missing documentation pertaining to black history in America. This web site’s intent will only host a fragment of the millions of steps/events, both large and small, that contributed to blacks obtaining equal rights, so I encourage other black Americans to do their part and produce, distribute the history that they know of; history that is missing. Black America has a lot of work to do in order to secure and publish the historical works done by black people in the effort to gain our freedoms.
Filmmaker, Author Harrell D. Williams, Sr., is the sole owner and curator of this web site. Through his research, Harrell has gathered information on Civil Rights Leaders and Advocates pertaining to their church affiliation. The goal in doing this task is to show “current” black Americans that the blacks who fought and died for our current freedoms, the majority of them were affiliated with and dedicated to a church and often that church was a contributor to Civil Rights efforts.
From research efforts, Harrell discovered that a lot of black church history is hidden and undocumented, or is published by a non-black person. It was a challenge for him to find information pertaining to black Civil Rights Advocates and their church affiliation. Harrell stresses that black Americans need to do a better job at keeping records of black history. Harrell feels there is an intent to hide the history of black churches; that there is a trend being carried out by black Americans to disassociate with the black church, as seen in the current trend called, “The great falling away.” With many blacks being influenced to marry outside their race, that too will likely dilute black history more, which is largely the history of evil done to blacks by whites. Harrell feels some blacks will sacrifice forgetting their own history in exchange for white acceptance.
If you have any information regarding the church affiliation of black Civil Rights Leaders, Workers, Advocates, please “Contact Us“
in the effort to get them added to this web site. God bless you!
The researched content on Civil Rights advocates was gathered from internet sources, books, news articles and obituaries, etc.