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What helped to encourage Richard Allen to establish the African Methodist Episcopal Church?

A. Refused admission to Princeton Seminary because of his color, he decided to set up his own religious organization.

B. He was forcibly removed from praying at the altar rail at his former place of worship.

C. He wanted to see an integrated church that combined the elements he admired most in the Methodist and Episcopal denominations.

D. Frederick Douglass gave him a generous grant to establish a new church.

E. Charles Grandison Finney persuaded Allen to build a black church,since Finney believed worship should be segregated.

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Answer: B. He was forcibly removed from praying at the altar rail at his former place of worship.

The African Methodist Episcopal Church is an independent denomination founded by black people. The main reason why this denomination was established was as a result of the segregation against black that existed in the Methodist Episcopal Church in the late 1700s and early 1800s. To escape this discrimination and make the church a welcoming place for all races, the AME was founded and it became the first church established for this reason and not theological distinctions. Richard Allen, a black preacher of the Christian gospel was permitted to minister only to black congregations. Also, blacks sat in different galleries when their population increased. With this, Richard Allen led a group to form a Methodist church for all races.

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