St. James UMC

at 1217 Wilson St and Andrews, Houston , 77019 United States

1. Church
2. Methodist Church
3. Religious Organization

Description

The Fourth Ward emerged as Houston's most prominent African-American neighborhood when thousands of freed slaves flooded into the city after emancipation. These newcomers settled on the fringes of the third, fifth, and fourth wards. The Freedmentown area north of San Felipe and the streets west of downtown not only attracted the largest number of the new black residents but also housed the first black churches, schools, and political organizationsThe Fourth Ward in Houston, also sometimes referred to as Freedmen's Town, is one of that city's most important African-American historic communities. During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, it was the center of black cultural and professional life in the city.Fourth Ward provided a home to early black religious and educational institutions. It had, in fact, achieved this distinction even before emancipation. In 1851 black Methodists began worshiping in their own church, adjacent to the white Methodist church on Milam Street in the Fourth Ward. This black church briefly housed a school for blacks in the late 1850s.

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Summary

St. James UMC is Houston based place and this enity listed in Methodist Church category. Located at 1217 Wilson St and Andrews TX 77019. Contact phone number of St. James UMC: (713) 651-1184