DEXTER AVENUE KING MEMORIAL BAPTIST CHURCH

This Baptist church built between 1885 and 1889 is less than 200 metres from the State Capitol. His first name, the Second Colored Baptist Church, was changed when the street, formerly Market Street, became Dexter Avenue. It is here that Martin Luther King was pastor from September 1955 and that he, along with other activists, launched the city bus boycott on December 2, 1955. It took place on 5 December and was renewed for more than a year.