In a rural Maryland community, a historic Black church brings a reckoning over a racist history that is still prevalent today. Serving a Black community in Garrett County, Maryland at the turn of the 20th century, the once known as Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church, or Bethel AME disappeared almost entirely in the span of a few short decades. Seated …
Garrett County, Maryland and the Little Church That Was
In a rural Maryland community, a historic Black church brings a reckoning over a racist history that is still prevalent today. Serving a Black community in Garrett County, Maryland at the turn of the 20th century, the once known as Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church, or Bethel AME disappeared almost entirely in the span of a few short decades. Seated …