A.M.E. church Bishop William Tecumseh Vernon at the First A.M.E. church during a visit to Los Angeles, 1925

Title: A.M.E. church Bishop William Tecumseh Vernon at the First A.M.E. church during a visit to Los Angeles, 1925
Date Created: June 27, 1925
Date: 1925-06-27
Publisher: Los Angeles Times
Language: No linguistic content
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description: Related to Los Angeles Times article, "Church Holds Annual Midsummer Meeting Here; Negro Bishops in Session." 28 Jun. 1925: pg. 10.
Bishop Vernon had a distinguished career. He earned a doctorate in divinity from Wilberforce University in Ohio. In 1906 he was appointed by President Theodore Roosevelt as Register of the United States Treasury, at that time the nation’s highest governmental postever occupied by an African American. During the later years of the Taft administration and before leaving government service in 1912, he also served as Supervisor of the United States Government Schools . From 1912-1920 he was President of Campbell College in Jackson, Mississippi, and later served as a pastor of Avery Chapel in Memphis, Tennessee. In 1920 he was consecrated as a Bishop and then served for four years in South Africa.
Photograph of Bishop William Tecumseh Vernon, Bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Church (A.M.E.) standing in front of the First A.M.E. Church at Eighth St. and Towne Ave. during a visit to Los Angeles for a meeting of the Council of Bishops. Vernon was the keynote speaker and talked about "Progress and Patriotism of the Colored Race in America."
Caption: Handwritten on negative: Bishop W. T. Vernon
Text from negative sleeve: Vernon, W. T. Bishop

Genre: cellulose nitrate film
news photographs
Names: Vernon, William Tecumseh, 1871-
African Methodist Episcopal Church
Location: Los Angeles (Calif.)
Longitude: 34.037122
Latitude: -118.247509
Resource type: still image
Subjects: Methodist churches--California--Los Angeles
Bishops--California--Los Angeles

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
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