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Helen Elizabeth Fromm

Person Name: Helen E. Fromm Hymnal Number: 532 Author of "The Trial of the Cross (This Do in Remembrance of Me)" in African Methodist Episcopal Church Hymnal

Levi Jenkins Coppin

1848 - 1924 Person Name: L. J. Coppin, 1848-1924 Hymnal Number: 583 Composer of "OUR FATHER'S CHURCH" in African Methodist Episcopal Church Hymnal

Dickerson

Hymnal Number: 481 Author (attributed to, st. 4-7 of "Jerusalem, My Happy Home" in African Methodist Episcopal Church Hymnal

Isabelle Tanner Temple

Hymnal Number: 652 Composer of "[In the name of the triune God]" in African Methodist Episcopal Church Hymnal

1927 - 2019 Person Name: Frederick H. Talbot, 1927- Hymnal Number: 613 Composer of "HELENA" in African Methodist Episcopal Church Hymnal Frederick Hilborn Talbot was born in 1927 in British Guiana (present day Guyana). He was influenced by his uncle Reverend David Patterson Talbot. Bishop William R. Wilkes noticed Fred Talbot's leadership role in organizing the Wilkes Youth Choir and arranged a scholarship for Talbot to attend the AME's Allen University in Columbia, South Carolina. He was ordained an itinerant deacon in 1951 and an itinerant elder in 1953 and served churches in the Little Mountain Circuit in South Carolina. After earning his B.A. he enrolled in Yale Divinity School and served as pastor at the First Methodist Episcopal Church in New Haven. He received an M.Div in 1957 from Yale and a S.T.M. in 1959 from Pacific School of Religion. He taught at Shorter College in North Little Rock, Arkansas and Payne Theological Seminary in Wilburforce, Ohio. In 1972 he was elected the 90th Bishop of the AME Church, serving in many capacities. His books included God's fearless prophet: the story of Richard Allen and African American worship: new eyes for seeing, sacred poems and tunes. He also record a CD in two volumes: A bishop sings of his faith. Dianne Shapiro, from obituary from Lewis & Write Funeral Directors website (lewisandwrightfuneraldirectors.com/tribute/details/3107/Frederick-Talbot/obituary.html on 8/5/2020)

J. Choppie

Hymnal Number: 597 Composer of "[Holiness, Holiness]" in African Methodist Episcopal Church Hymnal

Samuel Morris

1879 - 1979 Person Name: Samuel S. Morris, b. 1879 Hymnal Number: 617 Author of "Hush! Hush! My Soil" in African Methodist Episcopal Church Hymnal

Jimmie Davis

1899 - 2000 Hymnal Number: 447 Author of "When the World Seems Cold (Somewhere to Care)" in African Methodist Episcopal Church Hymnal Jimmie Davis (James Houston Davis) was born in Quitman, Louisiana, one of eleven children born to a sharecroppers. His father saw education as a way out of poverty. Jimmie attended high school in Winfield, business school in New Orleans, Louisiana College in Pineville, and earned a Masters degree from Louisiana State University. He served two terms as governor of Louisiana, from 1944 to 1948 and from 1960-1964. He also wrote the song "You Are My Sunshine," acted in B westerns, and taught history, as well as yodeling, at Dodd College in Shreveport for a year. He then took a job as court clerk in Shreveport, where he remained through most of the 1930's. He also began to write music during the 1930's. He was able to pick out music on his guitar and sang on the radio station KWKH, where a talent scout heard him and launched his career. Davis became public safety commissioner in 1938, public service commissioner in 1942, and launched his campaign for governor in 1944. When asked about his views on contentious issues, he would sing one of his songs. After his first term he concentrated on his music and also purchased 450 acres of farmland near Shreveport. He wrote hundreds of songs, both sacred and secular. In 1959 he decided to run again for governor. At that time the federal government was launching desegregationist initiatives. The segregationists supported William Rainach, but when it became clear that Rainach was not popular in Louisiana, they backed Davis. When asked late in life how he wanted to be remembered, he said "as someone who scattered a little sunshine along his path." Dianne Shapiro, from "Jimmie Davis, Louisiana's Singing Governor, Is Dead." by Richard Severo, New York Times, Nov. 6, 2000 (accessed online 8/17/2020)