About Wallace Chapel A.M.E. Zion Church
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Wallace Chapel A.M.E. Zion Church is a member of The African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church, a Methodist denomination, organized in 1796 in New York City by William Brown, William Hamilton, Francis Jacobs, Thomas Miller, Samuel Pontier, June Scott, Abraham Thompson, James Varick and Peter Williams.
The first regularly elected Bishop was the Right Reverend James Varick. Some notable A.M.E. Zion members were Frederick Douglass, Sojourner Truth, Harriet Tubman, Paul Robeson, Alexander Walton and Coretta King. The A.M.E. Zion Church owns and operates six schools of higher learning: Livingstone College, Salisbury, NC, a four year liberal arts college; three junior colleges, Lomax-Hannon, Greenville, Alabama; Clinton, Rock Hill, SC and A.M.E. Zion Community College, Monrovia, Liberia; and two seminaries, Hood, Salisbury, NC and Hood-Speaks, Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria.
