Missouri Banned Education For Black People in 1847, John Berry Meachum Responded By Opening A ‘Floating Freedom School’
John Berry Meachum was a founder of the oldest black church in Missouri, and a pioneer in the education in that state. Meachum was born in slavery in Goochland County, Virginia on May 3, 1789. Meachum owner, Paul Meachum, moved Meachum to North Carolina and then Kentucky, where Meachum learned several trades, which included carpenter. When he was 21, he had earned enough money from […]