Mother Methodist Church:

ID: 2894 ~ Source: Hodges, Lonnie Belle. Interviewed by Vivienne Malone-Mayes. August 30, 1990, in Waco, TX. Baylor University Institute for Oral History, Waco, TX. Access full interview here.
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Though St. James was the first African American church with a brick building, Hodges explains that Mt. Zion Methodist Church was the first African American congregation in the city.

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By Allie Roberts
St. James United Methodist Church, originally a Methodist Episcopal church, has existed almost as long as the city of Waco itself. Founded in 1874 by Anderson Brack, a formerly enslaved man, the congregation started with roughly fifty-three members.…