Dexter Avenue Baptist Church
The Dexter Avenue Baptist Church congregation was organized in 1877 and was first known as the Second Colored Baptist Church. The church trustees paid $270 on January 30, 1879 for a lot at the corner of what is now Dexter Avenue and Decatur Street. The first church building was a small wood-frame building, it began to be replaced by the current structure in 1883. The new brick building was not completed until 1889. Martin Luther King, Jr. was pastor of the church from 1954 to 1960, and organized the Montgomery Bus Boycott from his basement office.
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