Four million black people were fired in 1865, when President Lincoln and the federal government abolished slavery, a pastor told a packed house at the first summit meeting of a new coalition of churches in Louisville, Ky., formed to empower to predominantly African-American West Louisville.
“They were not freed,” Kevin Cosby, senior pastor of St. Stephen Church, told a nearly packed house of white and black faces at the Empower West Louisville faith-based summit held Sept. 23 at the church he has led since 1979, “They were fired … with no skills, no property and no wealth.”
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