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Civil rights leader and congressman delivers sermon at Shiloh Baptist, a church founded by former slaves

Civil rights leader and congressman delivers sermon at Shiloh Baptist, a church founded by former slaves

On the Sunday ahead of Martin Luther King Day and Barack Obama’s inauguration, I went to Shiloh Baptist Church on 9th St in Washington. Today it’s a church of hundreds of people but it was founded by 21 former slaves in 1863.
The church is led by Rev. George Wallace Smith but Congressman John Lewis delivered [...]


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