Visit the National Park Service We Shall Overcome travel itinerary to learn more about the civil rights movement themes and histories. Two of them admitted to the crime, but despite their signed confessions, they were acquitted by a jury. Only a few days after the bombing, police arrested seven white men. At the empty parsonage, 12 sticks of dynamite lay on the front porch.
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Several hours later, after the two men had gone to Williams' house, a bomb exploded outside the parsonage, crushing the front part of a house and shattering the windows of three parked taxis, injuring the drivers. He told Williams they should leave the parsonage immediately. A small wood-frame building located on the lot was used for worship service. On January 30, 1879, the Church’s trustees purchased a lot (50' by 110') for 270.00 on the corner of Dexter Avenue and Decatur Streets, where the current church is located. This photo is in 1 album Dexter Avenue King Memorial Baptist Church Montgomery (AL) Dexter Avenue Baptist Church Sanctuary - 454 Dexter Avenue Montgomery (AL).
Central Alabama Community College, Central Arizona College, Central Baptist. In February 1957, when King was alone in the parsonage with Morehouse College friend Bob Williams, something disturbed King. The Dexter Avenue King Memorial Baptist Church was founded in 1877 in a slave trader’s pen, located on Dexter Avenue (formerly Market Street). Auburn University, Auburn University at Montgomery, Augsburg University. I want it to be known the length and breadth of this land that if I am stopped, this movement will not stop." I was asked by you to serve as your spokesman. At the time, King was at a meeting, but his wife Coretta was at the parsonage with her ten-week-old daughter Yolanda Denice, also known as "Yoki." After King had verified that both were unhurt, he addressed the angry crowd of African Americans outside. On January 31, 1956, following the successful Montgomery bus boycott, King's home was bombed by local segregationists. Martin Luther King, Jr., lived in this parsonage when he was minister of the church between 19.