Title The encyclopaedia of the African Methodist Episcopal Church : containing principally the biographies of the men and women, both ministers and laymen, whose labors during a hundred and sixty years, helped make the AME Church what it is ; also short historical sketches of annual conferences, educational institutions, general departments, missionary societies of the AME Church, and general information about historical, theological, sociological, legal and other matters concerning African Methodism and the Christian church in general / comp. by R.R. Wright, Jr., assisted by associate editors, W.A. Fountain ... [et al.] ; introd. by William A. Fountain, foreword by Reverdy Cassius Ransom.