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West Hunter Street Baptist Church Dedication
1973-11
Lewis, Boyd, 1944
View of the Reverend Ralph David Abernathy, the pastor of the West Hunter Street Baptist Church and the president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), delivering his first sermon at the new West Hunter Street Baptist Church on Gordon Street (now Ralph David Abernathy Boulevard) in the West End neighborhood of Atlanta, Georgia.
- Title:
- West Hunter Street Baptist Church Dedication
- Creator:
- Lewis, Boyd, 1944
- Date Created:
- 1973-11
- Description:
View of the Reverend Ralph David Abernathy, the pastor of the West Hunter Street Baptist Church and the president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), delivering his first sermon at the new West Hunter Street Baptist Church on Gordon Street (now Ralph David Abernathy Boulevard) in the West End neighborhood of Atlanta, Georgia.
In 1973, the West Hunter Street Baptist Church congregation moved from its stone building at 775 Hunter Street NW (now Martin Luther King Jr. Drive) to the former Gordon Street Baptist Church, a brick building at 1040 Gordon Street SW (now Ralph David Abernathy Boulevard). Reverend Ralph David Abernathy served as pastor of the West Hunter Street Baptist Church congregation from 1961 to 1990 and led the effort to acquire the church building on Gordon Street in the 1970s.
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- Partner:
- Digital Library of Georgia
- Contributing Institution:
- Atlanta History Center
- Subjects:
- Church dedications--Georgia--Atlanta
Rites and ceremonies--Georgia--Atlanta
Churches--Georgia--Atlanta
Interiors--Georgia--Atlanta
African Americans--1970-1980
Choirs (Music)
Clergy--Georgia--Atlanta
Civil rights leaders--Georgia--Atlanta
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
West Hunter Street Baptist Church (Atlanta, Ga.) - Type:
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