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III. PUBLIC HEARING b. NATIONAL REGISTER NOMINATION i. Lowell Heights - Olivet African Methodist Episcopal Church Nomination to the National Register of Historic Places
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Lowell Heights Olivet REDRAFT NRform revised with plans
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United States Department of the Interior <br />National Park Service / National Register of Historic Places Registration Form <br />NPS Form 10-900 OMB No. 1024-0018 <br /> <br />Lowell Heights-Olivet African Methodist <br />Episcopal Church <br /> St. Joseph County, IN <br />Name of Property County and State <br />Sections 9-end page 18 <br /> <br />attorney-elect for the fight against the Ku Klux Klan when the organization fought to stop the <br />building of First A.M.E. Zion Church. Planning meetings for that were held at Olivet. During the <br />1950s, YMCA programming for the city’s African American population were held at Olivet <br />while members of the congregation led to the desegregation of South Bend’s Public Natatorium.6 <br />In 1957, the Olivet congregation hosted a concert at the Morris Civic Auditorium by noted <br />songstress Mahalia Jackson. <br /> <br />During the 1960s, workshops and testimony on fair housing were held and received at Olivet and <br />congregation member, Fred Coker, became state president of the NAACP.7 In 1968, the <br />congregation participated in a city-wide rally on civil rights. The rally included Mrs. Frankie <br />Muse Freeman, the only woman appointed to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. The <br />congregation hosted “A Pageant on Negro History” during the rally. Also in 1968, upon the <br />death of Martin Luther King, Reverend O.L. Powell, pastor of Olivet during the 1960s, led a <br />march in South Bend.8 <br /> <br />The pastor at the time of the move to Notre Dame Avenue, Reverend Roderick Johnson, led <br />South Bend’s local civil rights organization during the 1960s, but stepped away from its <br />leadership to focus on the congregation’s new home. The assistant pastor in 1970, L. J. Perry, <br />was elected the first African American president of the city’s Rotary Club.9 On December 16, <br />1971, the Olivet congregation celebrated the church’s 100th anniversary.10 Under the leadership <br />of Reverend Clarence G. Robinson, the $60,000 mortgage on the Notre Dame Avenue building <br />was paid off and burned in April 1976 after a celebration banquet was held at the Indiana Club in <br />South Bend. The building on Notre Dame Avenue continues to serve the Olivet A.M.E. <br />congregation today as they celebrate their 150th year anniversary (2020) and near the building's <br />centennial in 2023. <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />Developmental History/Additional historic context information <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />6 Powell, Alma. Interview with South Bend Civil Rights Heritage Archivist Scott Shoger <br />7 Powell, Alma. Interview with South Bend Civil Rights Heritage Archivist Scott Shoger <br />8 Powell, Alma. Interview with South Bend Civil Rights Heritage Archivist Scott Shoger <br />9 Powell, Alma. Interview with South Bend Civil Rights Heritage Archivist Scott Shoger <br />10 Bryant, John Charles Official Olivet A.M.E. Church History 1870-2020
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