Pleasant Grove Missionary Baptist Church

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Pleasant Grove Missionary Baptist Church (also known as Pleasant Grove Baptist Church) is located at 401 52nd Street and Avenue D in Fairfield. It was established in 1902 and previously located at 14 37th Street, Fairfield. There it erected buildings in 1907 and 1926. This site was purchased to build Interstate 20/59 in 1964, and the congregation relocated to its present site, completing its first building there on September 5, 1965. A new sanctuary was completed in 2005.

Because of its role in the Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights, it was recognized as a "movement church" by the Birmingham Historical Society.

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References

  • White, Marjorie Longenecker (1998) A Walk to Freedom: The Reverend Fred Shuttlesworth and the Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights, 1956-1964. Birmingham: Birmingham Historical Society. ISBN 0943994241


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