J. W. Hood

J. W. Hood

Prominent figure of the AME Zion church in North Carolina

J.W. Hood (James Walker)-(1831-1918) Educator, Bishop, and author of Sketch of the Early History of the African American Episcopal Zion Church (1914). Hood resided in North Carolina from 1863 until his death in 1918, and was a prominent figure in the AME Zion church and the black community in North Carolina.

North Carolina Central University

Digitized by: Documenting the American South, University Library, University of North Carolina: Chapel Hill

http://docsouth.unc.edu/church/hood/bio.htm

http://docsouth.unc.edu/church/hood/hood.html

The University of North Carolina, Wilson Library, Chapel Hill, North Carolina

1914

Documenting the American South: University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

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