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In June 1905, on the fourth Sunday of that month, a petition signed by forty-one members of First Baptist Church was read. The petition asked for letters of dismissal from the Church in order to organize and start and new church. Those forty-one people wanted to create a new church that better met the needs of the community. After a vote, with only one dissent, the news was delivered to the Church clerk on a Thursday in July. This new church would become the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church.
Publication Date
2020
Keywords
First Baptist Church, Huntington, West Virginia, Churches
Disciplines
African American Studies | Appalachian Studies | Arts and Humanities | Christian Denominations and Sects | History of Art, Architecture, and Archaeology | Race, Ethnicity and Post-Colonial Studies | Religion
Recommended Citation
Johnson, Kelli, "Sixteenth Street Baptist Church" (2020). Publications. 1.
https://mds.marshall.edu/african_american_pub/1
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