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Shady Grove Baptist Church: history and property description

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Title	Shady Grove Baptist Church: history and property description
Creator(s)	West, Carroll Van
Date	2005?
Coverage	2000-2009
Property name	Shady Grove Baptist Church
Property type	Church
National Register Reference	05000297 listed April 20, 2005
Community Name	Birmingham, Jefferson County, AL
Description	History and property description of Shady Grove Baptist Church.
Historical Notes	Shady Grove Baptist Church is associated with the Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights and the Civil Rights Movement in Birmingham from 1956 to 1963. The congregation dates to the beginning of settlement in the Collegeville neighborhood, a middle class and working class African-American neighborhood, and was organized in 1902 by Reverend S.M. Smart as one of the early African American Baptist congregations in Collegeville. Construction of the present building began in 1942. It became a locally significant strategy center for ACMHR. Congregation members held strategy sessions there in 1963 about their roles in the Project C demonstrations. Reverend Lewis J. Rogers also held ACMHR Finance Committee meetings at the church in order to raise funds to support legal challenges to segregation and to provide bail for jailed demonstrators and ACMHR officials.
Collection Name	African American Churches
Subject-LCSH	African American Churches -- Tennessee Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights Civil rights -- United States
Language	eng
Type	Text
Genre	History
Medium	Paper
Extent	3 pg, 8.5 x 11 in.
Copyright status	Copyright of the creator. Reproduced with permission
Contributing Institution	Center for Historic Preservation, Middle Tennessee State University
Conditions for use	Credit Center for Historic Preservation, Middle Tennessee State University Reproduction permitted for non-profit educational and research purposes only
Digital Publisher	Digital Initiatives, James E. Walker Library, Middle Tennessee State University

Shady Grove Baptist Church: history and property description

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