Bethel AME Church
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Bethel AME Church at the Fifth and Pine location, circa 1920.
Image courtesy of Images of America: African Americans in Spokane.
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Bethel AME Church
Spokane has long had a black population, though it started out quite small. Coal mining jobs drew large numbers of African Americans to Washington State in the 1880s, though often when they found…