Twelfth Baptist Church
1840 establishments in MassachusettsAfrican-American history in BostonBaptist churches in Boston
The Twelfth Baptist Church is a historic church in the Roxbury neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts. Established in 1840, it is the oldest direct descendant of the First Independent Baptist Church in Beacon Hill. Notable members have included abolitionists such as Lewis Hayden and Rev. Leonard Grimes, the historian George Washington Williams, the artist Edward Mitchell Bannister and abolitionist and entrepreneur Christiana Carteaux, pioneering educator Wilhelmina Crosson, and civil rights movement leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
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Warren Street, Boston Roxbury
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Warren Street 160
02119 Boston, Roxbury
Massachusetts, United States
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