Black History Month program is Sunday at Youngstown church

YOUNGSTOWN — Beulah Baptist Church, 570 Sherwood Ave., will have a free Black History Month program at 4 p.m. Sunday featuring historian Steffon Jones, a member of St. Andrewes African Methodist Episcopal Church.

St. Andrewes, one of the oldest of black American churches in Mahoning County, marked its 140th anniversary last year.

Among St. Andrewes’ founders was Oscar D. Boggess, a black Civil War soldier who is buried in Oak Hill Cemetery.

Boggess was a sergeant in the 43rd Regiment, United States Colored Volunteers of Pennsylvania. He received a medal for his courage. Jones said an Ohio Historical Marker plaque dedicated to Boggess is at Hawthorne and Edwards streets, the area in which he lived in the city.

Beulah youth will do mime, and there will be a skit about President and Mrs. Obama.