The list of grantees includes 16th Street Baptist Church Inc. in Birmingham, Alabama, where crucial civil rights organizing meetings were held during Jim Crow segregation in the 1960s
St. Rita Catholic Church is one of the first 35 houses of worship that will receive financial grants totaling $4 million from a trust fund established to preserve historic Black churches in the United States.
NEW YORK Administrators of a trust fund established to preserve historic Black churches in the United States on Friday revealed a list of houses of worship receiving $4 million in financial grants.