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New Friendship Baptist Church

CTL-E-1400 · Church · baptist · unspecified

PROVISIONAL evidence grade of this record

854 W. 71st Street, Englewood. Pastor Rev. Stroy Freeman. Served as the first major staging area for Chicago Freedom Movement rallies and marches on the South Side.

Notes

Merged into canonical KG 2026-10-03 from SCI-004; source entity IDs: CTL-DR-SCI-004:new-friendship-baptist; source research type(s): congregation. Era not present in source research record(s); marked unspecified pending human review.

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