Calvary Baptist Church (Chester, Pennsylvania)

Martin Luther King Jr. attended and worked with Calvary Baptist Church while he studied at the Crozer Theological Seminary from 1948 to 1951.

Calvary Baptist Church was organized in 1879 by a small group of freed slaves who migrated from Louisa County, Virginia.

[1] Martin Luther King Jr. attended Calvary Baptist Church while studying at Crozer Theological Seminary from 1948 to 1951.

[5] King was a frequent guest at the Barbour house for the southern cooking but also the academic debates and challenging ideas.

[1] In 1959, the civil rights leader Muhammad Kenyatta, born Donald Jackson, was ordained a minister at the age of 14 at Calvary Baptist Church.