BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 METHOD:PUBLISH PRODID:-//Telerik Inc.//Sitefinity CMS 13.1//EN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Central Standard Time BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20251102T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=1SU;BYHOUR=2;BYMINUTE=0;BYMONTH=11 TZNAME:Central Standard Time TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20250301T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=2SU;BYHOUR=2;BYMINUTE=0;BYMONTH=3 TZNAME:Central Daylight Time TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DESCRIPTION:Join us Friday\, August 7\, at noon\, for our Sandwiching in Hi story tour of the First Missionary Baptist Church in Little Rock.\n \; \n\nFirst Missionary Baptist Church is home to one of Arkansas&rsquo\; old est Black congregations\, having been founded in 1845 by an enslaved man\, Reverend Wilson Brown. The current red brick Gothic Revival building was constructed in 1882 by formerly enslaved craftsmen. Linked to Little Rock& rsquo\;s historic 9th Street corridor\, the church was a vital center for civil rights activism. It hosted influential speakers\, including Booker T . Washington and Dr. Martin Luther King\, Jr.\, who preached from its pulp it in 1963. This magnificent National Register-listed building continues t o serve its active congregation today.\n DTEND:20260807T180000Z DTSTAMP:20260519T101923Z DTSTART:20260807T170000Z LOCATION:Arkansas\,US\,Little Rock\,701 S Gaines St. SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Sandwiching in History: First Missionary Baptist Church UID:RFCALITEM639147827637751577 X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Join us Friday\, August 7\, at noon\, for our Sandwiching in History tour of the First Missionary Baptist Church in Litt le Rock.
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First Missionary Baptist Church is home to one of Arkansas&rsquo\; oldest Black congregations\, having been founded in 1845 by an enslaved ma n\, Reverend Wilson Brown. The current red brick Gothic Revival building w as constructed in 1882 by formerly enslaved craftsmen. Linked to Little Ro ck&rsquo\;s historic 9th Street corridor\, the church was a vital center f or civil rights activism. It hosted influential speakers\, including Booke r T. Washington and Dr. Martin Luther King\, Jr.\, who preached from its p ulpit in 1963. This magnificent National Register-listed building continue s to serve its active congregation today.

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