moved to Martin Luther King Drive and Barfield Ave SW. In August of 2024, the church will celebrate 139 of service. 285
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FORREST ARMS HOTEL The question of hotels and who they serve is to be pondered. Forrest Arms Hotel, managed by Ms. Johnnie Johnson, was one of the three main hotels, along with the Savoy Hotel and the Royal Hotel, that served Black clientele during Jim Crow segregation. Black artists playing on the Chitlin Circuit, such as “W.C. Handy, Bessie Smith, Ma Rainey, Duke Ellington, Count Basie, the Nicholas Brothers, Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughan, Jackie Wilson, Dinah Washington,” and others would have stayed at one of these hotels. 286
Mt. Olive Baptist Church
relocated from the east side because of highway construction
during the second major flood, BSBC was the location used by the Red Cross to set up and administer care to the community (emergency station), the church congregation also gathered items to donate to residents in need, bedding, clothing. Rev. PF Ransom. Red Cross- Carlos Lee, Director, C.O. Miller, Vice Director, Mary Mock, Director of Home Services
Butler Street Baptist Church Mt Zion Baptist Church Church of God in Christ New Pleasant Grove Baptist Church First Congregational Church, United Church of Christ Big Bethel AME Butler Street Christian Methodist Episcopal Ebenzer Baptist Church
Rev. EM Davis
Isreal Missionary Baptist Church
13 Daniel Street, moved to Boulevard in 1971 (now Hosea Williams)
Mt. Welcome Church
285 Rev. Richard B. Lankford Sr., “Mt. Olive Baptist Church, Church History,” Church Collection, Auburn Avenue.
286 Herman “Skip” Mason, Jr., “Images of America: African- American Entertainment in Atlanta.”, Arcadia Publishing, 1998.
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