Hartford Memorial Baptist Church, Detroit, Mich., Records 1922-2011

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Hartford Memorial Baptist Church, Detroit, Mich., Records 1922-2011

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Detroit, Michigan, African American church. Files concern church governance and policies; church committees and other organizations; and church events, celebrations, and services; also include publications and topical files with information on pastors Charles Hill and Charles Adams.

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Hill, Charles Andrew, 1893-1970

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Hartford Memorial Baptist Church (Detroit, Mich.)

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Between 1910 and 1920 the African-American population of Detroit increased from 5,741 to 40,838. Key institutions in the spiritual and social life of African Americans, African-American churches in Detroit grew in number from six in 1916 to over forty in 1926. African Americans settled on the east side of Detroit first and then migrated west, where there were no African-American churches. Rev. Edward Wendall Edwards approached the pastors of the Second Baptist Church and the Detroit...

Adams, Charles Gilchrist, 1936-

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