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...Daniel Hibler, Fielder's grandfather, co-founded the city's first African-American church, the Phillips Chapel CME Church. That building, which was used as a school during segregation according to Sun-News archives, has stood for more...
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...the country's second-largest body of black Methodists, after the African Methodist Episcopal Church. Members attend 3,100 churches, most of them in North Carolina. The CME Church, with about 800,000 members, was formed in 1870.
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