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- This article is about the First Baptist Church Hooper City. For other First Baptist churches, see First Baptist Church (disambiguation).
First Baptist Church Hooper City is located at 452 37th Court West in the Hooper City neighborhood. It was established in 1925.
Because of its role in the Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights, it was recognized as a "movement church" by the Birmingham Historical Society. It erected its civil-rights-movement-era building in 1946.
Pastors
- James E. Townsend, c. 1961-1964
- Larry Holman Jr
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