Cincinnati, OH

Union Baptist Church
DESCRIPTION: Second oldest African American congregation in Cincinnati established in 1831; an early pastor was author George Washington Williams, who became Ohio’s first African American legislator and ambassador to Haiti in 1885
ADDRESS: 405 West 7th Street
PHONE: 513-381-3858

Revelation Baptist Church
DESCRIPTION: Moved to this site in 1931 after being founded in 1921 at another location; Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth, civil rights activist and secretary of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, who left Birmingham to pastor here in 1960-1968
ADDRESS: 1556 John Street
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Allen Temple AME Church Site
DESCRIPTION: Original location at 536 Broadway here from 1870 to 1979; it is the oldest surviving African American church in Cincinnati; now at a new location
ADDRESS: 7181 Reading Road
PHONE: 513-531-7539

Lane Theological Seminary Site
DESCRIPTION: This seminary was operated by Lyman Beecher and Henry Ward Beecher; it was a center for the Abolitionist Movement in the 1850’s
ADDRESS: 2800 block, east side of Gilbert Avenue
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