Rev. Fauntroy, joined by Coretta Scott King, campaigns for election as DC's first nonvoting delegate to Congress, November 1970.
This file appears in: Civil Rights Tour: Political Empowerment - Walter Fauntroy and New Bethel Baptist Church
This file appears in: Civil Rights Tour: Political Empowerment - Walter Fauntroy and New Bethel Baptist Church
Civil Rights Tour: Political Empowerment - Walter Fauntroy and New Bethel Baptist Church
For 60 years spanning much of the second half of the 20th century, New Bethel Baptist Church at 1739 9th Street was led by Rev. Walter Fauntroy, one of DC's most respected civil rights leaders. A native Washingtonian and graduate of Dunbar High…