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Designated ARLH. November 13, 1996 [1] Bethel Baptist Church is a Baptist church in the Collegeville neighborhood of Birmingham, Alabama. The church served as headquarters from 1956 to 1961 for the Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights (ACMHR), which was led by Fred Shuttlesworth and active in the Birmingham during the Civil Rights Movement.
June 16, 1976 [1] The 16th Street Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Birmingham, Alabama, United States. In 1963, the church was bombed by Ku Klux Klan members. The bombing killed four young girls in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement. The church is still in operation and is a central landmark in the Birmingham Civil Rights District.
The Dexter Avenue Baptist Church is a National Historic Landmark near the Alabama State Capitol in Montgomery. [12] Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. helped to organize the Montgomery bus boycott in the church's basement. [13] The 16th Street Baptist Church is nationally known as the site of a Civil Rights-era bombing that killed four young girls.
Founded. 1907. ( 1907) Clergy. Senior pastor (s) James Gray. Hunter Street Baptist Church (established 1907) is a Baptist Church located in Hoover, Alabama, a suburb of Birmingham. It is affiliated with the Southern Baptist Convention . As of 2018, the church has a membership of approximately 4,500.
First Ebenezer Baptist Church. / 33.51306°N 86.82889°W / 33.51306; -86.82889. First Ebenezer Baptist Church is a historic Baptist church at 420 Graymont Avenue North in Smithfield in Birmingham, Alabama. It was built in 1942 and the congregation was active in the 1960s Civil Rights Movement. The church was added to the National ...
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History. The Dexter Avenue Baptist Church congregation was organized in 1877 by freedmen and free people of color. It was first known as the Second Colored Baptist Church. The church trustees paid $270 on January 30, 1879, for a lot at the corner of what is now Dexter Avenue and Decatur Street. The first church building was a small wood-frame ...
05000297 [1] Added to NRHP. April 20, 2005. Shady Grove Baptist Church is a historic church at 3444 31st Way North, Collegeville in Birmingham, Alabama. The building is of concrete construction that was built in 1942 under the direct of its pastor, the Rev. Lewis J. Rogers. The exterior was faced with Permastone in the early 1960s.