New Bethel Baptist Church (Detroit, Michigan)

New Bethel Baptist Church is a Baptist church located at 8430 C. L. Franklin Boulevard (also called Linwood Street)[1] in Detroit, Michigan.[2] It opened on March 10, 1963 at that location.[3] The church was founded March 6, 1932. In August, 1932, Horatius "H.H." Coleman served as pastor, until 1935. In May, 1946, clergyman and minister C. L. Franklin, father of music legend Aretha Franklin, became the pastor.[3]

Franklin served as minister of the organization until being shot in his Detroit home in 1979.[4] Franklin remained in a coma until his death from heart failure on July 27, 1984. His funeral was held at the church.[5] In later years, Aretha's siblings - Carolyn, Cecil, and Erma - would also have their funerals at New Bethel.

The church was where the Detroit Walk to Freedom was planned by Reverend Franklin, members of New Bethel, and Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. on June 23, 1963.[6][7]

On March 29, 1969, the church was the site of a shootout between members of the Detroit Police Department and members of the Republic of New Africa, in which a police officer was killed.[4][8]

In 1976, the funeral for Flo Ballard was held at the church.[4]

Reverend Franklin's daughter, Aretha, later recorded the album, One Lord, One Faith, One Baptism, at the church, releasing the album on her Arista label in 1987, and re-released in 2003 with previously unreleased songs.[9]

References

  1. ↑ "Michigan big wheels | Detroit Free Press | freep.com". Detroit Free Press. 3 June 2007. Retrieved 17 October 2015.
  2. ↑ New Bethel Baptist Church - Home
  3. 1 2 "New Bethel Baptist Church - About Us". Retrieved 12 October 2015.
  4. 1 2 3 United Press International (12 June 1979). "Rev. C.L. Franklin shot". Baltimore Afro-American. Baltimore, Maryland. Retrieved 30 September 2015.
  5. ↑ "C.L. Franklin, 69, Activist And Father of Aretha Franklin - NYTimes.com". 28 July 1984. Retrieved 30 September 2015.
  6. ↑ "Driving Detroit: The Quest for Respect in the Motor City - George Galster - Google Books". Retrieved 12 October 2015.
  7. ↑ "A once-great institution, New Bethel Baptist Church in Detroit now fights for survival against the ravages of time, social change and economic depression". Mlive.com. Retrieved 12 October 2015.
  8. ↑ "April 11, 1969 - COP SHOOTING SUSPECT GIVES UP IN DETROIT | Chicago Tribune Archive". Chicago Tribune. 11 April 1969. Retrieved 12 October 2015.
  9. ↑ Discogs - One Lord, One Faith, One Baptism 2003

Coordinates: 42°22′05″N 83°06′17″W / 42.36796°N 83.10468°W / 42.36796; -83.10468

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