Charles A. Hill Family Papers 1917-1981 1939-1970

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...

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Detroit Branch

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Hill, Georgia

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Hill Family

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Rev. Charles Andrew Hill, Sr., was born in Detroit on April 28, 1893, to Mary Lantz Hill, a German-American woman, and Edward Hill, an African-American dentist. His father settled in Chicago to establish himself while Charles was still young, and his mother was left to try to raise him alone. As a result of the lack of opportunities for women at the time, Charles spent some years in a city orphanage while his mother tried to attain financial security. He graduated from Cleary Busine...