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William Holmes Borders Sr. (24 February 1905 – 23 November 1993) [1] was an American civil rights activist and leader and pastor of Wheat Street Baptist Church in Atlanta, Georgia from 1937 to 1988.
Population: 37,409; Atlanta surpasses Savannah as Georgia's largest city. [7] 1881 Atlanta Baptist Female Seminary and Morris Brown Colored College founded. International Cotton Exposition held. [5] 1882 - Atlanta Fire Rescue Department established. 1883 Atlanta Journal newspaper begins publication. [12] Capital City Club established. 1885 ...
In 1907, Peachtree Street, the main street of Atlanta, was busy with streetcars and automobiles In 1914, Asa Griggs Candler , the founder of The Coca-Cola Company and brother to former Emory President Warren Candler , persuaded the Methodist Episcopal Church South to build the new campus of Emory University in the emerging affluent suburb of ...
Cameron M. Alexander (February 12, 1932 – December 30, 2018) was an American Baptist minister. He was the leader of the 12,000-member Antioch Baptist Church North and community leader in the English Avenue neighborhood (also known as part of "The Bluff") in Atlanta.
At church, I was somebody. I was ‘a promise and a possibility,’” says Bouyer of 31 st Street Baptist Church, which she attended with her mother, grandmother, ...
State Square was the central square of antebellum Atlanta, Georgia. The original Atlanta Union Depot designed by Edward A. Vincent stood in the middle of the square. The square was bounded by Marietta Street (now Decatur Street) on the northeast, Pryor Street on the northwest, Loyd Street (now Central Avenue) on the southeast, and Alabama ...
Charles Frazier Stanley Jr. (September 25, 1932 – April 18, 2023) was an American Southern Baptist pastor and writer. He was senior pastor of First Baptist Church in Atlanta for 49 years and took on emeritus status in 2020. [2] [3] [4] He founded and was president of In Touch Ministries which widely broadcasts his sermons through television ...
On January 10, 1957, following the Montgomery bus boycott victory against the white establishment and consultations with Bayard Rustin, Ella Baker, and others, Martin Luther King Jr. invited about 60 black ministers and leaders to Ebenezer Church in Atlanta.