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In June, the St. James Episcopal Church celebrated its 200th anniversary in Baltimore. They had a banquet on Friday night at Martin’s West and a service on Sunday, June 9 at the church in Lafayette Square. St. James is the Murphy family’s home church– the church where many of John Murphy’s descendants were baptized and confirmed. Photo credit: Jacob Howard
Team AFRO Attended the Associated Black Charities Cookout on Saturday, September 14, 2024
AFRO at the The Congressional Black Caucus Foundation’s Annual Legislative Conference (ALC) Wednesday, September 11, 2024, through Sunday, September 15, 2024, in Washington, D.C.! The 2024 conference, presented by Amazon, marks the 53rd ALC.
The conference was held at Walter E. Washington Convention Center for five days with premium programming and signature events including the Prayer Breakfast, National Town Hall, Phoenix Awards and Black Party.
Read about the AFRO’s CBC ALC coverage throughout the years here.
AFRO High Tea DC September 7, 2024 Shiloh Baptist Church Washington, DC
360 Booth videos are here until end of November
See more pictures from the September 7, 2024 event here.
Photo credit: Patricia McDougall
AFRO Team Wellness Day September 5, 2024 Soon to be Freedman’s State Park, Located in Howard and Montgomery counties
George Enoch Howard
George Enoch Howard (1814 – 1895) married Harriet Lee (1808 – 1882). From this union there were four children: John Henry Howard, Mary Alice Howard Coxen, Martha E. Howard Murphy, and Greenberry Howard. Sarah Griffith freed George Enoch in 1851. Samuel Gaither, from whom she purchased her four children in 1860, freed Harriet Howard in 1853. Freed in 1850, Enoch Howard petitioned the Montgomery County government to provide land and build schools to educate young blacks, a request that was granted in 1870. At the height of his success, he owned nearly 900 acres of farmland in the Howard Chapel section of Unity. After his death in 1895, his estate was divided among his three surviving children and his granddaughter, Harriet Coxen. He and his wife, Harriet, are buried in the cemetery on his farm above Howard Chapel Road. Howard Chapel served from the 1860’s into the 1950’s as the center of African American activities, and the Howard family dynasty spread into neighboring communities, especially Sandy Spring and Brookeville.
Martha E. Howard (1846 – 1915) was the third child of Enoch George and Harriet Howard. She was born a slave and was released to her mother by Bill of Sale when she was fourteen years old. She would be the property of her mother when she reached thirty years old. She married John Henry Murphy (1840 – 1923). John Henry Murphy founded the Afro-American Newspapers. Martha was a co-founder of the Colored Young Women’s Christian Association (YMCA) and served as president for 17 years.
Source: The Historical Marker Database https://www.hmdb.org/