Title	West End Hills Missionary Baptist Church: sanctuary
Creator(s)	West, Carroll Van, photographer
Date	2005?
Coverage	2000-2009
Property name	West End Hills Missionary Baptist Church
Property type	Church
National Register Reference	05000303 listed April 20, 2005
Community Name	Birmingham, Jefferson County, AL
Description	Black and white photograph of church sanctuary, featuring wood pews, and five rectangular windows with four panes.
Historical Notes	Organized in 1921 as the Collage [sic] Park Church, the West End Hills Missionary Baptist Church has been a southwest Birmingham fixture since the late 1950s. The church is significant as one of the churches involved in the Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights in the Civil Rights era. West End Hills Missionary Baptist Church is an outstanding example of the smaller, working-class based congregations that supported the Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights from 1959 to 1965. Many members of the congregation regularly attended and participated in ACMHR meetings. While the unassuming church was too small to host a regular ACMHR meeting, congregation members, guided by Rev. Coleman M. Smith, met there and planned how they would participate in the mass demonstrations of Project C in the spring of 1963.
Collection Name	African American Churches
Subject-LCSH	African American Churches -- Tennessee
Subject-AAT	Churches Pews
Subject-TGM	Churches Pews
Type	Still image
Genre	Photograph
Medium	Paper
Extent	4 x 6 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

West End Hills Missionary Baptist Church: sanctuary

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