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A.M.E. CHURCH HOLDS ST. LOUIS CONVENTION DESPITE BOYCOTT THREAT: Church’s summer event continues though local blacks are unhappy because of the city’s white mayor.
More than 40,000 delegates, church leaders and other A.M.E. visitors from around the world will meet July 3 – 11, 2008.
The U.S. church, which has roots dating back to 1787, claims two million members in three dozen countries. Mayor Francis Slay joined a dozen A.M.E. leaders at a news conference to announce the convention. Slay is the target of a recall effort by a group of black city resident.
Bishop John Richard Bryant, whose district includes states west of the Mississippi river said planners had already signed contracts committing the church, and its estimated $30 million economic impact to St. Louis before learning of the boycott.
“Besides,” Bryant said. “In speaking with the mayor and the council of local pastors who have worked with Mayor Slay in the past, we have no regrets.”
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