In 1950, Vick had a falling out with Norris and became solitary pastor of Temple Baptist.
Accordingly, Blacks were not allowed to join the church during his tenure, a whites-only policy that continued after him until 1986.
Indeed, the church building on Grand River Avenue became during the mid-1950s a center of white resistance to integration of Detroit neighborhoods.
A significant change was welcoming all people denouncing the racist behavior from decades ago.
[2][3] This church, having experienced many dramatic changes under Powell continues meeting at its large edifice in 49555 North Territorial Road, Plymouth, Michigan (a far-western suburb of Detroit, closer to Ann Arbor), where Temple had moved to due to dramatic growth preceding 1951 under both Vick and Norris which necessitated the vacation and sale (to a black congregation, King Solomon Baptist Church) of the former two meetinghouses on the corner of 6105, 14th Street in Detroit; the 5,000-seat auditorium of which, built in 1937 for Temple, is today the meeting-place of Starr of Zion Missionary Baptist Church, however King Solomon Baptist still owns both buildings, including the original church building of Fourteenth Avenue Baptist Church, built in 1917.