RALEIGH, N.C. (WTVD) -- A long-overdue acknowledgment was unveiled outside the historic St. Paul African Methodist Episcopal church downtown. The original marker was erected in 2004. "It reads that delegates met September 29th - October 3rd in 1865, one block north. They resolved to seek equal rights for the state's freed blacks."

The new marker acknowledges that those freedmen met for the first Freedmen's Convention at St. Paul in 1865 and 1866 .

"It didn't tell our story and how we were connected to the Freedmen's Convention. So, we had to right that wrong," St. Paul. A.M.E. member Florence Avery.

When they put that marker up, they never contacted the church. Florence Avery

Avery has been a member of the church for 40 years. She was behind the effort three years ago to get the

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