Old Galilee Baptist Church - Shreveport, Louisiana.
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misfitt
N 32° 30.057 W 093° 45.518
15S E 428734 N 3596217
Located near downtown Shreveport.
Waymark Code: WM3FXV
Location: Louisiana, United States
Date Posted: 03/31/2008
Views: 6
The Galilee Missionary Baptist Church founded 1877, was located here from 1917 to 1975. In 1958 and 1962 Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., spoke here, effectively initiating the Civil Rights movement in Shreveport. Strategies which led to Caddo school desegregation also were mapped out here. Included in National Register of Historic Places, 1984.”
This marker was put in place a “Historic Sites Signs Projects” by joint efforts between the City of Shreveport, Bossier City, Caddo Parish, & Bossier Parish, which began in 1995 and ran for 12 years. The Highland Area Partnership of Shreveport spearheaded the effort in the first place. Bob Marak designed the signs, the Shreveport City sign shop produced them, Eric J. Brock (historian in Shreveport) wrote the texts. This marker program was sponsored by the Shreveport-Bossier Convention and Tourist Bureau and was coordinated by Eric J. Brock, local historian, and Robert J Marak The project included many historic sites already marked by the state of Louisiana and resulted in 142 markers placed in the Shreveport-Bossier area..
Marker Name: Old Galilee Baptist Church
Marker Type: Roadside
What does marker relate to?: Building
Parish: Caddo
Link to more information:: Not listed
Year Erected or Date Dedicated: Not listed
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