ABSTRACT
The Reverend Florence Spearing Randolph's achievements as an evangelist, minister, missionary, suffragist, lecturer, organizer, and temperance worker rank well with those of the most celebrated Americans in our history. The majority of African-Americans, recently freed from slavery, were poor and uneducated and had few options beyond working in the fields, or at the most in menial and servile jobs. Randolph's work with the Women's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU), as an organizer and lecturer against the liquor traffic, influenced her ministerial thought and style. Zion Church and the New Jersey State Federation are yet to be known, she influenced the life of blacks and Americans through her ministry and her work, particularly in temperance and suffrage. The Reverend Florence Randolph's feminist leadership included work as a suffragist for the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment, and diverse efforts to elevate the status of women, particularly African-American women.
