Blacks in Blue: How The Salvation Army began in America

It's 1872 in Cleveland, Ohio. Two black Methodist pastors and their congregation begin singing Negro Spirituals and, in doing so, launch what would eventually become known as The Salvation Army in the United States. Warren  L. Maye, author of "Soldiers of Uncommon Valor: The History of Salvationists of African Descent in the United States," tells this little–known story of how African–American people helped build the largest and "most effective social service organization in the United States" (Peter Drucker).