Clinton Chapel AME Zion Church, mother church of the AME Zion in Charlotte, was founded in 1865 by Northern missionaries who moved westward across North Carolina with the Union troops.
SECOND WARD ALUMNI ASSOCIATION.
Right: Ebenezer Baptist Church, on East 2nd Street, was organized in 1877.
SECOND WARD ALUMNI ASSOCIATION.
Members of the New Emmanuel Congregational Church, with their pastor, Dr. W. C. Calhoun, November 12, 1944.
MARILYN PRIDE.
Mt. Moriah Primitive Baptist Church was located on the corner of Alexander and 11th streets. This photograph was made in 1921 when the Reverence K. D. Davis served as pastor of the church.
GERALDINE JOHNSON BLENMAN.
The Sunday School classes of the Seventh Street Presbyterian Church gather in front of the sanctuary, February 27, 1921.
THELMA M. COLSTON.
The Reverend Sidney David Watkins, pastor of Little Rock AME Zion Church, 1900 - 1906 and Presiding Elder, Charlotte District, 1906 - 1922.
BESSIE MULLIENS.
Right: The Reverend Hercules Wilson, the first minister at Brooklyn Presbyterian Church. He also served Woodlawn and Lloyd Presbyterian churches in Mecklenburg County.
FIRST UNITED PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH ARCHIVES.
Little Rock AME Zion Church, originally located in Third Ward, in the process of being moved to Myers Street in First Ward in 1911.Because the move took place over several days, it was necessary to hold a funeral in the sanctuary during the move.
FLORETTA DOUGLAS GUNN.
Dr. Furman Brodie, pastor of Brooklyn Presbyterian Church during the 1920s.
SECOND WARD ALUMNI ASSOCIATION.
Right: Brooklyn Presbyterian Church, organized 1911, and the manse.
FIRST UNITED PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH ARCHIVES.
Charlotte's first black Baptist church was organized by former slaves in June, 1867. This sanctuary, at 1020 South Church Street, was dedicated in September, 1911, and demolished in 1977.
CHARLOTTE OBSERVER LIBRARY.
Deacon Board of the First Baptist Church, c. 1945.
Left to right, front row: James Bratton, Homer Bonner, Porter Connor, Edgar Phillips, the Reverend J. H. Moore.
Back row: Ellis Hunter, James Brown, unknown, J. Knight.
MILDRED ALRIDGE.
