Eskew, Glenn T
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Encyclopedia article about Lucius Holsey. As bishop of the Colored Methodist Episcopal Church (later Christian Methodist Episcopal Church), Lucius Henry Holsey oversaw the growth of the denomination in his native state of Georgia. Through paternalistic interracial cooperation, he promoted collaboration between black and white southern Methodists that resulted in a number of successes, such as the establishment of Paine College in Augusta. Holsey, whose father was white, retained close ties with members of both races and worked for racial uplift even after, in exasperation over lynching and other racial proscriptions, he called on the American government to create a separate black state in the West.
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