ST. MARY'S MISSIONARY BAPTIST
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N 29° 53.315 W 081° 18.808
17R E 469733 N 3306480
ST. MARY'S MISSIONARY BAPTIST
Waymark Code: WMVHP
Location: Florida, United States
Date Posted: 10/17/2006
Views: 40
This church was founded on May 25, 1875, and led by the inspiring Reverend Ivory Barnes its first minister. The present edifice, occupied beginning in 1937, has held high the banner of Christ inspired in its earlier days by the spirit of the Emancipation Proclamation and The Reconstruction following The Civil War. St. Mary's occupied a unique position at the foot of Lincolnville, and stands tall as a beacon of freedom and hope.
During the era of the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s in St. Augustine, this church, through the stout-heartedness of its minister and NAACP leader, Reverend Thomas A. Wright, and other local leaders, was the site of mass meetings and a respite for the foot soldiers on the road in the quest for civil and human freedoms. These crusading examples, sustained through St. Mary's Missionary Baptist Church, ordains it the Birthplace of the Civil Rights Movement in St. Augustine.
Marker Number: No number.
Date: JUNE 2006
County: St Johns
Marker Type: Roadside
Sponsored or placed by: THE CIVIL RIGHT MEMORIAL PROJECTS COMMITTEE OF ST. AUGUSTINE
Website: Not listed
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