<oai_dc:dc xmlns:oai_dc="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/ http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc.xsd"><dc:coverage>United States, Georgia, Chatham County, Savannah, 32.08354, -81.09983</dc:coverage><dc:creator>McKee, Sarah E. (Sarah Elizabeth), 1971-</dc:creator><dc:date>1708/2022</dc:date><dc:description>A museum housing artifacts and church memorabilia dating to the eighteenth century is housed on the grounds of First African Baptist Church in Savannah. One of the oldest Black churches in the nation, First African has occupied its current site on Montgomery Street since 1859.</dc:description><dc:description>Photograph of the doors to a museum housing artifacts and church memorabilia dating to the eighteenth century, which is housed on the grounds of First African Baptist Church in Savannah, Georgia.</dc:description><dc:description>This church, which was established during the 1770s and later played an important part in the Savannah civil rights movement, is one of the oldest continuously existing black congregations in the United States. The brick structure features a bell tower rising above the entrance. The stained-glass windows in the current church building, located at 23 Montgomery Street in Savannah, feature prominent black leaders.</dc:description><dc:format>image/jpeg</dc:format><dc:relation>http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-3626</dc:relation><dc:relation>Forms part of: New Georgia Encyclopedia</dc:relation><dc:rights>http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/</dc:rights><dc:source>http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-3626</dc:source><dc:source>Forms part of: New Georgia Encyclopedia</dc:source><dc:subject>Church buildings--Georgia--Savannah</dc:subject><dc:subject>Baptist church buildings--Georgia--Savannah</dc:subject><dc:subject>Historic buildings--Georgia--Savannah</dc:subject><dc:subject>Savannah (Ga.)--Church history</dc:subject><dc:subject>African American Baptists--Georgia--Savannah</dc:subject><dc:subject>African Americans--Georgia--Religion</dc:subject><dc:subject>Buildings--Georgia--Savannah</dc:subject><dc:subject>Museums--Georgia--Savannah</dc:subject><dc:subject>Doors--Georgia--Savannah</dc:subject><dc:subject>Signs and signboards--Georgia--Savannah</dc:subject><dc:subject>First African Baptist Church (Savannah, Ga.)</dc:subject><dc:title>First African Baptist Church</dc:title><dc:type>StillImage</dc:type></oai_dc:dc>