The historic church was one of dozens of African-American Civil Rights movement sites throughout the country that the NPS awarded grant funds as part of their African American Civil Rights Grant Program, which preserves the history surrounding those sites. Boyd told me that he and his congregation feel blessed to receive the NPS grant.
Bill Oglesby recalls some of the highlights of that day.
Memories and photographs convey how some locals spent past Richmond winters
Behind the scenes of a ’50s teen’s dream