Church gals with the one on the far right being much more stylish than the others

Last weekend I bought a whole bunch of incredibly cheap photos at an estate sale. Among them is a whole set of snapshots that center around this church, the Vancouver Avenue First Baptist Church on Vancouver Avenue, here in Portland. I drove past it and discovered that it was remodeled and only a few features of this building, built in 1909, remain. One of the photos I'll post later shows the remodel, which was completed in 1958, in process. The congregation moved into this building with the beautiful windows in 1951.

In 1961, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. gave a speech to the congregation that was titled "The Future of Integration". In the speech Dr. King said, "If democracy is to live, segregation must die. Segregation is a cancer in the body of democracy that must be removed if the health of the nation is to survive".

I've attached two links. One shows what the building looks like now. The second link is a video of the youth choir singing en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vancouver_Avenue_First_Baptist_Church
www.youtube.com/watch?v=AjhMXRXXk5o

Taken on: July 5, 2017

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