Johnny Burrell speaking to a young boy and woman on the porch of a boarding house in Little Korea, a neighborhood in Birmingham, Alabama.
The woman's hair is in curlers, and a sign on the porch reads, "Furnished Rooms." Burrell, a minister and barber, ran a Sunday school program for the children who lived near Legion Field and in Little Korea. The membership of his "Congregation Church Number Two" consisted of...
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Alabama Department of Archives and History
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Online Access: | http://cdm17217.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/peppler/id/7215 |
Summary: | The woman's hair is in curlers, and a sign on the porch reads, "Furnished Rooms." Burrell, a minister and barber, ran a Sunday school program for the children who lived near Legion Field and in Little Korea. The membership of his "Congregation Church Number Two" consisted of a few adults and about forty-five children, aged two to sixteen. This image was taken for (but not used in) the article "A Church of Children," which appeared on page 4 of The Southern Courier for June 11-12, 1966. The issue is available online (not on the ADAH website): http://www.southerncourier.org/low-res/Vol2_No24_1966_06_11.pdf |
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