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 work as scabs hired to break strikes. A large number…
