Movement churches

This is a list of sixty Movement churches, identified by the Birmingham Historical Society as having played a significant role in the Civil Rights Movement organized by the Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights in Birmingham:

• Abyssinia Baptist Church
• Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church, Rosedale (nominated for NRHP)
• Bethel Baptist Church (National Historic Landmark)
• Canaan Baptist Church (National Register of Historic Places)
• Christian Valley Baptist Church (nominated for NRHP)
• East End Baptist Church (National Register of Historic Places)
• First Baptist Church of East Thomas (National Register of Historic Places)
• First Baptist Church of Ensley
• First Baptist Church of Hooper City
• First Baptist Church of Kingston (National Register of Historic Places)
• First Baptist Church of Woodlawn
• First Congregational Christian Church (Center Street Historic District)
• First Ebenezer Baptist Church (National Register of Historic Places)
• First Metropolitan Baptist Church
• 46th Street Baptist Church
• Galilee Baptist Church
• Groveland Baptist Church
• Hopewell Baptist Church
• Jackson Street Baptist Church
• Lily Grove Baptist Church
• Macedonia 17th Street Baptist Church
• Metropolitan AME Zion Church (Birmingham Civil Rights District)
• Metropolitan CME Church (nominated for NRHP)
• Metropolitan Community Church (nominated for NRHP)
• Mt Ararat Baptist Church (National Register of Historic Places)
• Mt Olive Baptist Church
• New Bethlehem Baptist Church
• New Hope Baptist Church
• New Pilgrim Baptist Church
• New Rising Star Baptist Church (National Register of Historic Places)
• New Salem Baptist Church
• Oak Street Baptist Church (nominated for NRHP)
• Pleasant Grove Baptist Church
• Regular Missionary Baptist Church
• St James Baptist Church
• St John African Methodist Episcopal Church (Birmingham Civil Rights District)
• St John Baptist Church
• St Luke AME Church (National Register of Historic Places)
• St Luke AME Zion Church (National Register of Historic Places)
• St Paul African Methodist Episcopal Church, Smithfield
• St Paul CME Church
• St Paul Methodist Church (Birmingham Civil Rights District)
• St Peter Primitive Baptist Church (nominated for NRHP)
• Sardis Baptist Church (National Register of Historic Places)
• 17th Street AOH Church
• Shady Grove Baptist Church (National Register of Historic Places)
• 16th Street Baptist Church (National Historic Landmark)
• 6th Avenue Baptist Church
• 6th Avenue Zion Hill Baptist Church (Birmingham Civil Rights District)
• 6th Street Baptist Church (National Register of Historic Places)
• 6th Street Peace Baptist Church
• Tabernacle Baptist Church
• Thirgood CME Church
• 32nd Street Baptist Church (Southside Historic District)
• 22nd Avenue Baptist Church (nominated for NRHP)
• Union Bethel Independent Methodist Church
• West End Hills Baptist Church (National Register of Historic Places)
• Zion Spring Baptist Church
• Zion Star Baptist Church

Documentation

The Birmingham Historical Society began collecting materials and conducting field work on movement churches in 1993 in concert with the Historic American Buildings Survey. Their research was published in A Walk to Freedom and the process of submitting nominations for the National Register of Historic Places is an ongoing project.

References

• "Documenting and Listing Movement Churches on the National Register of Historic Places" (June 2006) Birmingham Historical Society Newsletter