(RELIGION) WHITE REV SAMPSON The first man to plant a colore

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(RELIGION.) WHITE, REV. SAMPSON. The first man to plant a colored Baptist church in the City of Washington, D.C. Silver print photograph, 6x4 inches, mounted on a photographer's piece of heavy stock; notations on front and reverse, the latter with "Property of Rev. Walter H. Brooks, pastor of 19th St. Baptist Church, Washington, D.C." Washington, DC, circa 1880s

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a fine association Reverend Sampson White was the first pastor of the 19th Street Baptist Church, first African-American church in Washington D. C. (1839-1841). The owner of this photograph was the reverend Walter Henderson Brooks, pastor of the 19th Street Baptist Church from 1882 to 1945. Brooks was a temperance leader and published poet (The Black Man's Soliloquy, Original Poems, Pastor's Voice).