Religious Organizations – Baptist
Calvary Baptist Church, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma (1900 – )
In 1890, individuals from three different Baptist congregations in Tennessee moved to the newly opened Oklahoma Territory. After undergoing two...
St. John The Baptist Church (1869- )
St. John the Baptist Church was founded on the edge of a sugarcane plantation where generations of African slaves worked,...
Michigan Street Baptist Church, Buffalo, New York (1836-1962)
In 1836, 27 years before President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863, a group of literate African American...
The Birmingham Children’s Crusade (May 1963)
Early in 1963, Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) leaders, Dr. Martin Luther King, Reverend Ralph Abernathy, and local Birmingham leader...
Anna R. Woodbey (1855-1901)
Anna R. Woodbey, an early suffragist and minister, was the first known African American woman to be nominated on a...
Raphael G. Warnock (1969- ) [Children’s Edition]
This entry is for juvenile audiences. To see the full version of this entry, click here. Who are they: U.S....
Alberta Christine Williams King (1904-1974)
Alberta Christine (Williams) King, a retired organist at Ebenezer Baptist Church and a choir director, wore many hats in her...
Gardner Taylor (1918-2015)
Gardner Taylor was a civil rights advocate, social change agent, prominent minister, and leader within the National Baptist Convention. Taylor...
Raphael G. Warnock (1969- )
Raphael Gamaliel Warnock is the senior pastor at the historic Ebenezer Baptist Church, once led by Reverends Martin Luther King...
