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Or the conflicts of the Early Church, or the brutality of the state-controlled Church of the Roman Empire, or Charlemagne, or the Crusades, or colonization in America, or the Thirty Years' War, or... (lemmy.world)
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[–] LustyArgonianMana@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Learn about Aretha Franklin. The reason is because black people developed large Christian networks that helped their communities. Back then, if you were black and wanted to travel to another state, not every town was safe and you couldn't stay at hotels. So they'd call their churches and stay with other members of the church, and get advice through their churches on which towns to avoid. To this day many black people stipp network through their churches, which gave them a lot of safety.