Bozie sturdivant biography of christopher

  • “Born c.1884” he had been “the pastor of Mount Calvary Baptist Church in Rock Dale Park, Atlanta, since 1914 (and held the post until he died.
  • Bozie Sturdivant, a 34 year old Mississippian, and a disciple of the Texan R H Harris, who was then in the process of reinventing gospel.
  • Other records Lomax captured recordings by William Brown, Bozie Sturdivant and Turner Junior Johnson.

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    Juneteenth (June 19) is a federal holiday in the United States celebrating the liberation of enslaved African Americans in Texas in 1865. Abraham Lincoln had issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863, but it was not implemented in places still under Confederate control, and because Texas, being on the westernmost edge of the Confederacy, was farthest from the military action of the Civil War, Texans could conveniently continue to enslave, as there were no soldiers there to enforce the executive decree. But when Union troops, both white and Black, arrived in Galveston Bay on June 19, 1865, two months after the official end of the war, they saw to it by threat of force that the 250,000-plus enslaved Black people in the state were freed.

    Also known as Emancipation Day or Jubilee Day (after the year of release mandated by ancient Israelite law), Juneteenth has been celebrated by African American communities in Texas ever since the first anniversary of the freeing event. Historically, the church has been at the center of these celebrations, as the formerly enslaved attributed their liberation to God, to whom they gave effusive thanks and praise. In the twentieth century, Juneteenth expanded into other states but still remained very niche, until 2021, when, after deca

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    Gon' Act Emerge A Minister, Ride Unapproachable Town fully Town*
    (a brief detain of jetblack preachers love the South-before 1940)
    by 'Mississippi' Max Haymes
    (*= Matchbox Reminiscent, Blind Artefact Jefferson,1927)


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