Place of worship
Dexter Avenue King Memorial Baptist Church
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Location
454 Dexter Ave
Montgomery, AL
Tips from locals
In 1954, Martin Luther King began his first full-time pastorship at Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama. While at Dexter, King became president of the Montgomery Improvement Association (MIA) and led his congregation and the black community during the Montgomery bus boycott.
Tour the church that Dr. Martin Luther King preached and see a piece of history of the Civil Rights Movement!
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., used the pulpit of this unassuming red brick church to lead the 1955-56 Montgomery bus boycott, which ignited the civil rights movement.