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"Father of black Baptists in Texas" dies in La Marque
On this day in 1898, Israel S. Campbell died in La Marque. Campbell was
born in Kentucky in 1815 and came to Texas as a missionary in 1866. In
1867 he reorganized the African Baptist Church (now the Avenue L Baptist
Church) in Galveston, the first completely independent black Baptist
congregation in Texas after emancipation. In 1868 Campbell and John Henry
Yates helped organize the Regular Missionary Lincoln Baptist Association,
the first association of black Baptists in Texas. Campbell also wrote the
constitution for the Baptist State Missionary Convention in 1872. By the
time of his retirement, in 1891, he was popularly known as the father of
black Baptists in Texas.
- Links to Related Handbook of Texas Online Articles
- CAMPBELL, ISRAEL S.
- BAPTIST CHURCH
- BAPTIST MISSIONARY AND EDUCATIONAL CONVENTION OF TEXAS
- AVENUE L BAPTIST CHURCH
- YATES, JOHN HENRY [JACK]
- AFRICAN-AMERICAN CHURCHES
- Other Texas Day by Day Articles for This Date
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- First Texan on U.S. Supreme Court dies in New York City (1977)
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