Warren Avenue Congregational Church

CTL-E-1408 · Church · other · unspecified

PROVISIONAL evidence grade of this record

3101 W. Warren Boulevard, East Garfield Park (building now houses New Greater St. John Community Missionary Baptist Church). Served as the West Side headquarters of the SCLC team during the Chicago Freedom Movement.

Notes

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

Sources

sites.middlebury.edu/chicagofreedommovement/chicago-freedom-movement-sites/; Chicago Reporter, 'The roots of the Chicago Freedom Movement' (2016)
Chicago Reporter, 'The Chicago Freedom Movement and the fight for fair lending' (2016)

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