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    Dexter Avenue Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Montgomery, Alabama, United States, affiliated with the Progressive National Baptist Convention. The...
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    named after the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama, where his father was pastor before moving to the Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta....
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    African-American neighborhood. It was purchased in 1919 by the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church for use as their parsonage. It was the home of Martin Luther...
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    that young, 25-year-old pastor who first began preaching at the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama, in 1954. As a political leader in the...
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    her stand on the bus, Rosa Parks attended a mass meeting at Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery that addressed this case, as well as the recent...
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  • Vernon Johns (category 20th-century Baptist ministers from the United States)
    rights movement. He is best known as the pastor (1947–52) of the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama. He was succeeded there by Dr. Martin...
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  • spoken on the lynching of Emmett Till as King's guest at the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church only four days before Parks's arrest. Parks was in the audience...
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  • The 16th Street Baptist Church bombing was a terrorist bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama on September 15, 1963. The bombing...
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    Martin Luther King Jr. (category 20th-century Baptist ministers from the United States)
    housewife and mother. The Dexter Avenue Baptist Church was influential in the Montgomery African-American community. As the church's pastor, King became known...
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    sworn in, Reed took part in a prayer service at the historic Dexter Avenue Baptist Church, which gained notoriety at the start of the Civil rights movement...
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  • Foster Auditorium J. L. M. Curry Home Barton Hall Ivy Green Wilson Dam Dexter Avenue Baptist Church First Confederate Capitol Montgomery Union Station and Trainshed...
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  • Alabama, where, in 1965, King led civil rights demonstrators down Dexter Avenue toward the Alabama State Capitol at the conclusion of the third march...
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  • the late 19th and early 20th centuries. On January 1, 1900, at Dexter Avenue Baptist Church, he gave a speech, The Negro Element in American Life, which...
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    Street Baptist Church Kelly Ingram Park A.G. Gaston Motel Bethel Baptist Church Brown Chapel Dexter Avenue Baptist Church Holt Street Baptist Church Edmund...
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  • spoke at a mass meeting of Birmingham's black citizens at the 6th Avenue Baptist Church: "The eyes of the world are on Birmingham tonight. Bobby Kennedy...
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  • State University) in Montgomery. She was also active in the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church. : 9  It was in Montgomery, Alabama, where Robinson joined the...
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    Dexter Avenue, along which also lies the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church, where Martin Luther King Jr. was pastor. Both the Capitol and Dexter Baptist Church...
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    the seventh of thirteen children of William Poole Sr. (1868–1942), a Baptist lay preacher and sharecropper, and Mariah Hall (1873–1958), a homemaker...
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  • Ivins, This Way Out (1927), p. 56 Prowd, H.D. "Mt. Olive Missionary Baptist Church". California Eagle. Los Angeles. p. 7. Popov, Irina G."'This Little...
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    community leader in Montgomery, Alabama. He helped found the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church. Henry Allen Loveless was born in Bullock County, Alabama in...
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    Association at Harvard University, and gave the corresponding lecture at Memorial Church. On March 5, 2024, Bridges was inducted into the National Women's Hall of...
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    County, Alabama National Historic Landmarks Alabama State Capitol Dexter Avenue Baptist Church Montgomery Union Station and Trainshed United States Post Office...
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    leaders were asked to march down Independence Avenue, while the male leaders marched on Pennsylvania Avenue with the media. The start of the March was delayed...
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    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...
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    (2005), "Sermon on the Mount", The Oxford dictionary of The Christian church, New York: Oxford University Press. Baasland, Ernst (2015). Parables and...
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    May 12, 2020. "1965 – Students March in Montgomery; Confrontation at Dexter Church", Civil Rights Movement Archive History and Timeline. Gary May, Bending...
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  • speaker at Dexter Avenue Baptist Church later that year in October. The same year that she was elected to be a speaker at the Baptist church, she was also...
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    World Heritage nomination (along with the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church and the 16th Street Baptist Church) and as such it is on the UNESCO 'Tentative...
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    held in King's hometown of Atlanta, Georgia. The service at Ebenezer Baptist Church was nationally televised, as were other events. A funeral procession...
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    Walker, about Fred Shuttlesworth, interviewed by Andrew Manis, Caanan Baptist Church, New York City: Transcription held at Birmingham Public Library, Birmingham...
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