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Beale Street Baptist Church, also known as, First Baptist Church or Beale Avenue Baptist Church, is a historic church on Beale Street, in Memphis, Tennessee. It is affiliated with the National Baptist Convention, USA. It was founded by a congregation of freed slaves.
379 Beale Ave. Memphis: Also known as Beale Street Baptist Church, historic church built for a congregation of newly freed slaves. 60: First Colored Baptist Church: First Colored Baptist Church: July 14, 2000 : 682 S. Lauderdale St.
Beale Street Baptist Church, Tennessee's oldest surviving African American Church edifice built beginning in 1869, was also important in the early civil rights movement in Memphis. In 1889, NAACP co-founder Ida B. Wells was a co-owner and editor of an anti-segregationist paper called Free Speech based on Beale before her presses were destroyed ...
Adjacent to the Ida B. Wells plaza is the historic Beale Street Baptist Church, where freed slaves worshiped, and in the early 1890s housed Well’s newspaper, Memphis Free Speech and Headlight.
The brass ensemble of the Kipp Memphis Collegiate High School Marching Band participates in the 2019 Memphis Holiday Parade on Beale Street, Saturday, Dec. 14, 2019, in Memphis, Tenn.
Beale Street Baptist Church; Bellevue Baptist Church; C. Calvary Episcopal Church (Memphis, Tennessee) Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception (Memphis, Tennessee)
Beale Street has contributed more than $160 million in sales, liquor, and hotel taxes plus fees and rent over the last 40 years. Let’s do more to make Beale Street a safe and vibrant place for ...
Beale Street; Beale Street Baptist Church; Wilks Brooks House; C. Chucalissa; Calvary Episcopal Church (Memphis, Tennessee) Central High School (Memphis, Tennessee)