This article explores how one small group of church mothers exemplified womanist consciousness and practices. Although the women of Myrtle Baptist Church did not claim to be womanist, their actions express womanist consciousness and praxis.
Read MoreRead documents that provide contemporaneous accounts and images relating to the 1897 fire that destroyed our original structure and its rebuilding and eventual rededication in 1898.
Read MoreIn 1960 Myrtle purchased the home at 20 Curve Street, across the street from the church. After extensive repairs the house served as a parish house for two of Myrtle’s pastors Rev. Pulley and family and Rev. Littlejohn and family (it is now used as rental property).
Read MoreRead three documents that relate to the incorporation of Myrtle Baptist Church in 1963 under the laws of the State of Massachusetts. Notably some of the documents are signed by members of the church from that period.
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