Detroit’s African American religious community during the Great Migration @OneDetroit
Detroit’s African American religious community during the Great Migration @OneDetroit
Uploaded April 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
The “Black Church in Detroit” series examines the church's role and impact during the Great Migration. One Detroit contributor Stephen Henderson talks with Pastor Lawrence Rodgers of Second Baptist Church of Detroit and Elliott Hall, the historian for Tabernacle Missionary Baptist Church, about how the Black church helped Southerners who migrated to Detroit.

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