De Baptiste, Richard, 1831-1901

found: Chicago (Ill.). Colored Citizens. Civil rights: address of the Colored Citizens ... 1866:t.p. (Richard De Baptiste)

found: Dict. of Amer. Negro biog., 1982(De Baptiste, Richard; b. 1831; d. 1901; Afro-American Baptist clergyman)

found: African American National Biography, accessed December 12 2014, via Oxford African American Studies Center database:(De Baptiste, Richard; Baptist clergy, Baptist lay leader, educator, newspaper editor / publisher; born 11 November 1831 in Fredericksburg, Virginia, United States; in 1860 he was ordained as an elder, and three years later he assumed the pastorate of Olivet Baptist Church in Chicago, a post he held until 1882; was involved in the Wood River Baptist Association; the Northwestern and Southern Baptist Convention, the Consolidated American Baptist Missionary Convention, the American Baptist Free Mission Society, a biracial organization fiercely opposed to slavery; his strong emphasis on racial independence led him to support vigorously the founding of the National Baptist Convention (NBC) in 1895, the first permanent national organization of African American Baptists; he was an outstanding religious leader of the nineteenth century; died 21 April 1901 in Illinois, United States)