Black Churches In Pulaski, Tennessee
Workers of The A.M.E. Sunday School Publishing House, Nashville, Tennessee. An association which spreads "Christian Teaching" broadcast and opens an avenue for the employment of intelligent men and women of the race, 1917, Courtesy of The New York Public Library
This is another contribution to our biography of Dr. Alvenia M. Fulton (1893-1999). She was born in Pulaski in Giles County, Tennessee. I our last segment we discussed the city’s African-American entrepreneurs and black owned businesses. In addition, businesses African-Americans in Pulaski supported thriving religious institutions. Pulaski had 11 African-American congregations, among them Methodist, Presbyterian, Church of God, Church of Christ, four Missionary Baptist Churches; and three Primitive Baptist. A man named Fulton pastored Campbells Chapel AME church but it’s not clear if he had any relations to Alvenia Fulton. We do know that her grandfather Richard Woodruff had been an AME minister. Her grandfather Benjamin Moody had been a Baptist minister. Fulton describes her family as, “deeply religious” people devoted to studying the bible and prayer. “Cooking was done on Saturday and Sunday the wagon was loaded with baskets of food and all nine of us children spent the entire day in church and visiting friends.”
