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Dexter Avenue Baptist Church, pastored by Martin Luther King Jr. and used as a base of operations during the Civil Rights Movement.. This is a list of Baptist churches in the U.S. state of Alabama that are notable because they are National Historic Landmarks (NHL), listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP), listed on the Alabama Register of Landmarks and Heritage (ARLH), or are ...
The Alabama Colored Baptist State Convention, which changed its name in 1974 to the Alabama Missionary Baptist State Convention, was founded in 1868 in Montgomery and by the turn of the 21st century comprised over 1000 churches. In 1898, the New Era Progressive Baptist State Convention split from the ACBSC, and another split in 1920 spawned the ...
The First Baptist Church is a Southern Baptist megachurch in Montgomery, Alabama.The First Baptist Church building is located downtown on South Perry Street.Founded in 1829, it had a mixed congregation (consisting of enslaved and free blacks as well as whites) until 1867 when most African-American members (themselves often the slaves of the white congregationalists) [1] branched off to found ...
The First Baptist Church (also known as the Brick-A-Day Church) on North Ripley Street in Montgomery, Alabama, is a historic landmark.Founded in downtown Montgomery in 1867 as one of the first black churches in the area, it provided an alternative to the second-class treatment and discrimination African-Americans faced at the other First Baptist Church in the city.
He gained national fame when he led a year-long boycott by Black people of city buses in Montgomery, Alabama, in 1955 and 1956 to protest a policy requiring Black passengers to sit in the back of ...
First Baptist Church (Montgomery, Alabama) ... Mount Olive Missionary Baptist Church (Mobile, Alabama) Mount Zion Baptist Church (Anniston, Alabama) N.
Dexter Avenue Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Montgomery, Alabama, United States, affiliated with the Progressive National Baptist Convention.The church was designated as a National Historic Landmark in 1974 because of its importance in the civil rights movement and American history.
St. Vincent de Paul Catholic Church (Mobile, Alabama) Sardis Baptist Church (Birmingham, Alabama) Sardis Baptist Church (Union Springs, Alabama) Second Presbyterian Church (Birmingham, Alabama) Shady Grove Baptist Church; Shady Grove Methodist Church and Cemetery; Shoal Creek Church; Spring Hill Methodist Church; St. Louis Street Missionary ...