[1] The congregation first met in the home of Margaret Ruffin Faucette in Durham's Hayti neighborhood.

The Reverends Zuck Horton and Samuel Daddy Hunt were the first ministers to lead the congregation.

[3] A number of prominent African American citizens were members of White Rock Baptist Church, including Asa and Edna Spaulding, parents of Asa T. Spaulding Jr.,[4] and Dr. Aaron Moore.

In 1960, just after the start of the sit-in movement at the Woolworth store in Greensboro, North Carolina, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. gave a speech titled "A Creative Protest"[5] at White Rock Baptist Church to a crowd estimated at 1,200.

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