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Jimmy Washington  New Zion Church in Bardstown, Kentucky  Bishop L.R. Holsey, D.D.  Banner Bible Band, Nashville, Tennessee  Religion So Sweet 
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Sources of Images:
  1. Jimmy Washington from "In Christ's Stead": Autobiographical Sketches by Joanna P. Moore (Chicago: Women's Baptist Home Mission Society, c1902).


  2. New Zion Church in Bardstown, Kentucky from My Life and Work by Alexander Walters (New York and Chicago: Fleming H. Revell Company, c1917).


  3. Bishop L.R. Holsey, D.D. from The History of the Colored Methodist Episcopal Church in America: Comprising Its Organization, Subsequent Development and Present Status by C. H. Phillips (Jackson, Tenn.: Publishing House C. M. E. Church, 1925).


  4. Banner Bible Band, Nashville, Tennessee from "In Christ's Stead": Autobiographical Sketches by Joanna P. Moore (Chicago: Women's Baptist Home Mission Society, c1902).


  5. Relgion So Sweet sheet music from Slave Songs of the United States edited by William Francis Allen, Charles Pickard Ware, and Lucy McKim Garrison (New York: A. Simpson & Co., 1867).