NPS Form 1 0-900-b OMB No. 024 ... - National Park Service

African Americans formally established a new First Colored Baptist Church (now known as First Baptist Church) on St. Philip Street out of the earlier c. 1845 arrangement with whites that established the town’s earlier Baptist church building. According to local Selma historian Alston Fitts III, “The black church’s tradition is that the ... ................
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