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By Canter Brown Jr.
Special to the Times
Editor’s note: This is the second in a series of articles sponsored by the New Bethel AME Church History Project with Dr. Brown serving as consulting historian. The Rev. Charles Morris pastors New Bethel.

By Canter Brown Jr.

By Canter Brown Jr.
Editor’s note: This is the sixth in a series of articles sponsored by New Bethel AME Church History Project with Dr. Brown serving as consulting historian. The Rev. Charles Morris pastors New Bethel.
A diversity of influences radiated outward to the state and nation from Gadsden County’s AME churches in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. The lives and experiences of Alexander C. Lightbourne and Mary Zeigler Lightbourne offer excellent cases on point.

By Canter Brown Jr.
Editor’s note: This is the eighth in a series of articles sponsored by New Bethel AME Church History Project with Dr. Brown serving as consulting historian. The Rev. Charles Morris pastors New Bethel.