Sarah Bostick

Sarah Bostick

Sarah Lue Bostick (1868–1948) born Sarah Lue Howard near Glasgow, Kentucky, on May 27, 1868, was key in organizing the first African-American Christian Woman's Board of Missions auxiliary in 1892 and subsequent clubs throughout the south at the turn of the 20th century.

In 1892, she was the first African American woman ordained in the Disciples.

Works

• Bostick, Sarah Lou; Bertha Caroline Fuller; T R Moore; Claude E Spencer (1949). The Life Story of Sarah Lou Bostick: A Woman of the Negro Race. Little Rock, Arkansas.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)

See also

• Sadie McCoy Crank
• Jessie Trout

Further reading

• Burnley, Lawrence A. Q. (2008). The Cost of Unity: African-American Agency and Education in the Christian Church, 1865-1914. Mercer University Press. pp. 15, 236–237. ISBN 978-0-88146-134-3.
• Cummins, D Duane (May 1, 2009). The Disciples: A Struggle for Reformation. Chalice Press. pp. 146, 190. ISBN 978-0-8272-3678-3.
• "Discovering the Disciples" (PDF). Covenant Christian Church.
• Fuller, Bertha M. (1949). Sarah Lou Bostick: Minister and Missionary. Nashville, Tennessee: Disciples of Christ Historical Society, Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) - private printing.
• "Meet Your Past - Sarah Lue Bostick" (PDF). African American Disciples Women. Vol. 1, no. 2. Disciples Women of the National Convocation of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ). August 2008.
• Newell Williams, D.; Douglas Allen Foster; Paul M. Blowers (March 30, 2013). The Stone-Campbell Movement: A Global History. Chalice Press. pp. 55, 58, 68–69, 71, 72. ISBN 978-0-8272-3527-4.
• "Sarah Lue Bostick". Disciples of Christ Historical Society, Christian Church (Disciples of Christ).