List of Baptist churches on the National Register of Historic Places in Alabama

Early Baptist churches were usually biracial in membership, although the African American members were almost always slaves belonging to the white congregants.

[6][10] African-American Baptist congregations in Alabama played an important primary role in the civil rights movement in the United States.

[11] The Dexter Avenue Baptist Church is a National Historic Landmark near the Alabama State Capitol in Montgomery.

The church had served as an organizational headquarters, site of mass meetings and rallying point for blacks protesting widespread institutionalized racism in Birmingham.

[10][15][16][17] In 1995, the Southern Baptist Convention voted to adopt a resolution that renounced its racist roots and apologized for its past defense of slavery.