Detroit’s African American religious community during the Great Migration

The Great Migration played a big role in growing Detroit’s African American religious community as migrants who traveled from the South joined existing congregations or created their own.
American Black Journal’s “Black Church in Detroit” series examines the church's role and impact during the Great Migration.
Host 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.
They discuss the reasons why the migrants traveled North, how Black church memberships grew because of the influx of people, and how some migrants established new churches in Detroit.
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