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Source Collection
Commercial Appeal newspaper morgue, Special Collections Department, University of Memphis Libraries
Identifier
sc.0452.01.016_08.001
Description
First Baptist Church on Beale Street, Memphis, in October 1966. Founded in 1869 and built between 1871 and 1885 by a congregation of freed slaves. The structure was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1971, and was included in an enlargement of the National Historic Landmark District of Beale Street in 1993.
Date Created
7-2-2021
Date
1966 October
Rights
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
Recommended Citation
"Beale Street 1st Baptist Church, Memphis, TN, 1966" (2021). Memphis. 90.
https://digitalcommons.memphis.edu/speccoll-mss-commercialappeal4/90
Keywords
Churches--Tennessee--Memphis., Beale Street (Memphis, Tenn.)
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