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==Pastors== | ==Pastors== | ||
* [[Melvin Godwin]], -1970 | * [[Melvin Godwin]], 1947-1970 | ||
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* {{White-1998}} | |||
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Latest revision as of 07:20, 24 July 2022
6th Avenue Zion Hill Baptist Church was a Baptist church founded in the 1930s and located at 1414 6th Avenue North in downtown Birmingham. Its brick sanctuary, dedicated on August 31, 1958, featured a south-facing porch gable supported on four thin brick piers. A moulded white steeple crowned the gable roof. A cross-gable at the rear of the church
On April 12, 1963 the church was used as a starting point for a scheduled Good Friday march, headed by Martin Luther King Jr along with Ralph Abernathy and Fred Shuttlesworth. The march was the first appearance for King in a public demonstration during the Birmingham Campaign, and was highly anticipated in the black community.
The former church building is now the home of the Deliverance Temple Inter-Faith Church.
Pastors
- Melvin Godwin, 1947-1970
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