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    Nineteenth Street Baptist Church, located on 16th Street, NW, is considered to be the first and oldest Baptist, black congregation in Washington, D.C...
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    Baptist (attended by Presidents Truman and Carter), the Nineteenth Street Baptist Church which was originally named the First Colored Baptist Church of...
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  • Baptist Church, was organized under the guidance of the First Colored Baptist Church of Washington, D.C. which was later renamed the Nineteenth Street Baptist...
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    Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly known as Washington or D.C., is the capital city and federal district of the United States...
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  • congregation (49.9%). Of all DC residents, 12.6% adhere to the Catholic Church, 6.2% to American Baptist, 4.4% to Southern Baptist, 3.1% to Episcopal, 2.2%...
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    served as the founding pastor of Nineteenth Street Baptist Church of Washington, D.C. and Abyssinian Baptist Church of New York City. He would be followed...
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    for the building of the church and services began in 1925. The present church, located at 1810 Sixteenth Street NW, Washington DC, was established in 1930...
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    (black Baptist churches were founded in South Carolina and Georgia before the American Revolutionary War). In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century...
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    Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham (category People appearing on C-SPAN)
    Brooks, was a pastor at Nineteenth Street Baptist Church (Washington, D.C.), the oldest black Baptist congregation in Washington D.C. Higginbotham's aunt...
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    Souls Church, Unitarian is a Unitarian Universalist church located at 1500 Harvard Street NW at the intersection of 16th Street, Washington, D.C., roughly...
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    Park View is a neighborhood in Washington, D.C., located in Northwest D.C. The neighborhood is primarily residential with its main commercial corridor...
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  • Wayland Seminary (category History of Washington, D.C.)
    In Washington, classes were held in the basement of the First Colored Baptist Church of Washington, D.C. (the church was later renamed the Nineteenth Street...
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  • Washington, D.C. 1940 Munson Hall Washington, D.C. 1938 Newton Theater Washington, D.C. 1937 Nineteenth Street Baptist Church Washington, D.C. 1946 Ogden...
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    The Nineteenth Amendment (Amendment XIX) to the United States Constitution prohibits the United States and its states from denying the right to vote to...
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    Freedmen organized their own churches, chiefly Baptist, followed by Methodists. Other Protestant denominations, and the Catholic Church, played smaller roles...
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    Street Presbyterian Church (Detroit, Michigan) Fort Washington Presbyterian Church Fourth Presbyterian Church (Chicago) Highland Presbyterian Church (Kentucky)...
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  • Baptist Churches. The deepest root of American Baptist Home Mission Societies (ABHMS) is the Baptist General Tract Society founded in Washington, D.C...
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  • disfellowshipped Baptists, most notably Charles Price Jones (1865–1949) and Charles Harrison Mason (1864–1961). In 1895, C. P. Jones and C. H. Mason were...
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    category. The nation's second-largest church and the single largest Protestant denomination is the Southern Baptist Convention. Among Eastern Christian...
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    Tenley Circle (category Streets in Washington, D.C.)
    Northwest Washington, D.C. neighborhood of Tenleytown. Tenley Circle lies at the intersection of Nebraska Avenue, Wisconsin Avenue, and Yuma Street. Unlike...
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    Episcopal Church (articles, church reviews, and book reviews). Articles on leading Episcopalians, both lay (e.g., George Washington, Franklin D. Roosevelt...
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    Road in South Orange in 1958. The Prince Street building served as the home of the Metropolitan Baptist Church from 1940 to 1993. In 1990 it was slated...
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    Nannie Helen Burroughs (category Activists from Washington, D.C.)
    Convention of the National Baptist Convention, and other organizations and roles. She was buried at the Nineteenth Street Baptist Church where she was a member...
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  • later. The town's name is derived from the Beulah Baptist Church (now the Beulaville Baptist Church). Beulaville is the most recent town to be incorporated...
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    Leonard Grimes (category People from Washington, D.C.)
    residence he owned from 1836 to 1846 at the corner of 22nd and H Streets NW, Washington, D.C., now in the center of GW's Foggy Bottom campus. The National...
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  • Episcopal Church in the United States and South Africa (1995) A. Nevell Owens, Formation of the African Methodist Episcopal Church in the Nineteenth Century:...
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    Introduction to Baptist History, Then and Now." The Baptist Observer. Cross, FL, ed. (2005), "Baptists", The Oxford dictionary of the Christian church, New York:...
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  • including Roger Williams, a Baptist Dissenter and founder of Providence, Rhode Island. He wrote: When they [the Church] have opened a gap in the hedge...
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    the Baptist churches in Charlottesville included the Union Run Baptist Church, the South Garden Baptist Church, and the Ebenezer Baptist Church. The...
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    St. John the Baptist Catholic Church is a historic church, with an associated rectory, school, and cemetery, located at 324 S. Washington Avenue in Hubbardston...
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