Grand Army of Christian Educators - Certificate #1

Membership Certificate #1. "Black History". Colorful and so historic! Founded in 1866, the Freedmen's Aid Society (FAS) was an agency of the Methodist Episcopal Church created to establish schools and colleges for Negroes in the South. The Society provided support for teachers in the institutions begun by or connected with the FAS and helped educate young men for the ministry. The Society was directed by a Board of Managers who were elected by the General Conference. In 1920 the Society was reorganized as the Board of Education for Negroes. At the creation of the Mehodist Church in 1939, the Board of Education for Negroes was absorbed into the work of the Board of Education.