West End Hills Missionary Baptist Church

1680 19th Place SW, Birmingham, Alabama. County/parish: Jefferson.

Added to the National Register of Historic Places April 20, 2005. NRIS 05000303.

1 contributing building.

From Wikipedia:

West End Hills Missionary Baptist Church

West End Hills Missionary Baptist Church is a historic church at 1680 19th Place SW in Birmingham, Alabama. It was built between 1959 and 1965 when the main sanctuary was dedicated. The church is significant for its congregation's participation in the Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights rallies for Civil rights in the 1950s and the 1960s under the direction of its pastor, the Rev. Coleman M. Smith. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.

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National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/77835235

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