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Title	Metropolitan Community Church: rear view of classroom wing
Creator(s)	West, Carroll Van, photographer
Date	2005?
Coverage	2000-2009
Property name	Metropolitan Community Church
Property type	Church
Community Name	Birmingham, Jefferson County, AL
Latitude/Longitude	33.542878,-86.739657
Description	Color photograph of the rear classroom wing, a hipped concrete block addition. Seven symmetrically arranged bays with metal frame industrial-style hopper windows.
Historical Notes	Metropolitan Community Church was organized in 1938 and the church was built in the Woodlawn neighborhood of Birmingham in phases between 1946 and 1953. It is a small building of concrete block construction and partially faced with local sandstone. The Pentecostal church is significant for its association with the Civil Rights Movement in Birmingham from 1956 to 1963 and for its association with African American ethnic identity in Birmingham. Woodlawn was home to the most active Ku Klux Klan group in Birmingham, but Metropolitan Community Church never suffered Klan violence. It is part of the smaller, working-class congregations that supported the Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights (ACMHR) and Project C demonstrations, in part by making the church available for meetings. In 1977, the church attracted national attention as its pastor, Reverend Elizabeth Cobbs, testified against her uncle Robert Chambliss during his trial for the murder of Carol Denise McNair, one of the four girls killed in the bombing of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in 1963.
Collection Name	African American Churches
Subject-LCSH	African American churches
Subject-TGM	Churches
Type	Still image
Format	jpeg2000
Genre	Photograph
Medium	Paper
Extent	4 x 6 in.
Copyright status	Copyright of the creator. Reproduced with permission
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
Contributing Institution	Center for Historic Preservation, Middle Tennessee State University
Source file	MetroCommunity005