Birmingham Churches and Their Cornerstones 45
While traveling the Bessemer Super Highway (US-11) from Bessemer toward central Birmingham in Alabama, you’ll spy a stately mid-twentieth-century Romanesque Revival church on the right. It is the First Baptist Church of Roosevelt City. Earlier the church was located a block away on Patton Avenue.
Roosevelt City was a city within Jefferson County from 1967 to 1988. In 1972, with a population of 3,663, it promoted itself as the third-largest all-black city in the nation. After two decades of existence, it united with Birmingham, which then been governed by an African American mayor for just over a decade.
The inscribed stones pictured below are located on either side of the steps up from the street.
Read this first post for more on this series on Birmingham churches and their cornerstones.
Chasing Churches 