Freedom Enterprise, xi (Bethel AME Church)

Identifier: DBB-ITM-02601
Source: Kendra D. Boyd, Freedom Enterprise: Black Entrepreneurship and Racial Capitalism in Detroit (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2025). Pages: xi.
Source Type: Boyd Research Findings
Activity: church
Principal: Bethel AME Church (Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church)
Location: 579 Frederick Ave
Transcript: Bethel AME Church. Originally founded in 1839 as the second
Black church in Detroit, Bethel became an AME church in 1841.
Shown on the map is its location at 579 Frederick Street, between
Beaubien and St. Antoine, which was dedicated on June 7, 1925.
The church remained in this location until the early 1970s.
Title: Freedom Enterprise, xi (Bethel AME Church)

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