Old and new Calvary Baptist Church and Parsonage

ID: 4973 ~ Source: Photo courtesy of The Spokesman-Review. ~ Date: ca. 1940s.
This file appears in: Early African-American Pioneers in Spokane
Old and new Calvary Baptist Church and Parsonage

A newer brick church replaced the older wooden church by the 1940s. Though the wooden church was eventually removed, the brick church and parsonage still stand today.

This file appears in: Early African-American Pioneers in Spokane

By Whitney Wyngaert
In the 1880s Spokane grew from waves of immigration. Though white individuals were the majority, the city soon developed other minority populations. Along with the more famous Chinatown, Spokane had its own small African American community. In…