- Collection:
- Boyd Lewis Photographs
- Title:
- West Hunter Street Baptist Church Dedication
- Creator:
- Lewis, Boyd, 1944-
- Date of Original:
- 1973-11
- Subject:
- African Americans--1970-1980
Civil rights leaders--Georgia--Atlanta
Women--1970-1980
Church dedications--Georgia--Atlanta
Churches--Georgia--Atlanta
Crowds--Georgia--Atlanta
Older people--Georgia--Atlanta
Television cameras
Camera operators
Rites and ceremonies--Georgia--Atlanta
Clergy--Georgia--Atlanta
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
West Hunter Street Baptist Church (Atlanta, Ga.) - People:
- Abernathy, Ralph, 1926-1990
Abernathy, Juanita, 1929-
Clark, Mattie - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Atlanta, Gordon Street, 33.753585, -84.307311
United States, Georgia, Atlanta, Ralph David Abernathy Boulevard, 33.738094, -84.416982
United States, Georgia, Fulton County, West End, 33.73816, -84.41632 - Medium:
- photographs
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- View of Mattie Clark (foreground, second from left), the oldest living member of the West Hunter Street Baptist Church; the Reverend Ralph David Abernathy (foreground, third from left), the president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) and the pastor of the West Hunter Street Baptist Church; Juanita Jones Abernathy (foreground, fourth from left), the wife of Ralph David Abernathy; and other unidentified individuals attending a dedication ceremony for the new West Hunter Street Baptist Church on Gordon Street (now Ralph David Abernathy Boulevard) in the West End neighborhood of Atlanta, Georgia.
In 1973, the West Hunter Street Baptist Church congregation moved from its stone building at 775 Hunter Street NW (now Martin Luther King Jr. Drive) to the former Gordon Street Baptist Church, a brick building at 1040 Gordon Street SW (now Ralph David Abernathy Boulevard). Reverend Ralph David Abernathy served as pastor of the West Hunter Street Baptist Church congregation from 1961 to 1990 and led the effort to acquire the church building on Gordon Street in the 1970s. - Local Identifier:
- VIS 101.570.003
ahc101570003.jpg - Metadata URL:
- https://album.atlantahistorycenter.com/digital/collection/byd/id/2718
- IIIF manifest:
- https://album.atlantahistorycenter.com/iiif/2/byd:2718/manifest.json
- Bibliographic Citation (Cite As):
- Cite as: MSS 602, Boyd Lewis Papers, Kenan Research Center, Atlanta History Center
- Extent:
- 35 mm black and white negative
- Original Collection:
- Boyd Lewis Photographs, Atlanta History Center
- Holding Institution:
- Atlanta History Center
- Rights:
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