Vernon Park Church of God

CTL-E-1407 · Church · other · unspecified

PROVISIONAL evidence grade of this record

Church pastored by Rev. Claude Wyatt during the 1982-83 voter registration drive; operated a mobile voter-registration van outside the church on Sunday mornings.

Notes

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

Sources

Christianity Today, 'Why Black Brethren Embrace Politics,' May 1983
The HistoryMakers (primary); The Bluegrass Special (secondary), 2012 (primary source)

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