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Bethel Baptist Church is a Baptist church in the Collegeville neighborhood of Birmingham, Alabama, United States.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.
Bethel Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, is the birthplace of the modern civil rights movement—and still inspires the local community today. ... Restoring the Collegeville neighborhood ...
Collegeville is a city neighborhood in the North Birmingham community of Birmingham, Alabama. It is the location of Bethel Baptist Church , a National Historic Landmark . References
Jesse Benjamin Stoner Jr. (April 13, 1924 – April 23, 2005) was an American lawyer, white supremacist, neo-Nazi, segregationist politician, and domestic terrorist who perpetrated the 1958 bombing of the Bethel Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama. He was not convicted for the bombing of the church until 1980.
Fred Shuttlesworth, pastor of Bethel Baptist Church, served as president of the group from its founding in 1956 until 1969. The ACMHR's crowning moment came during the pivotal Birmingham campaign which it coordinated along with the Southern Christian Leadership Conference during the spring of 1963. [1]
James Page, the first ordained black minister in Florida. He was the first pastor of Bethel Missionary Baptist Church, and came to Leon County as the slave of John Parkhill from Richmond, Va.
December 21, 1950 — Home of Monroe and Mary Means Monk at 950 North Center Street, who had challenged the city of Birmingham's zoning laws. [4] December 24, 1956 — The home of the Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth, Black minister of Bethel Baptist Church and activist is bombed. [5] December 31, 1956 — A black home is bombed. [5]
Bethel Baptist Church (Birmingham, Alabama), a U.S. National Historic Landmark in Alabama Bethel Baptist Church (Fairview, Kentucky) , listed on the NRHP in Kentucky Bethel Baptist Church (Jennings, Louisiana)