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Clearview Gospel Hall, WA

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Locations
* various rentals 1899-1912
* E. Cherry & 22nd Ave. 1912-1920
** This particular location subsequently was occupied by Cherry Hill Baptist Church which was credited in an article from April 2018 by the Seattle Times (see [https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/what-if-a-historic-church-is-torn-down-but-nobody-notices/ Seattle article] as a "key center for Seattle black activism and community organizing during the civil-rights movement". This "one small church... was used to rally people for black equity in schools, tenants' rights, more blacks in the public universities and an end to apartheid. It was used to protest redlining in the banking industry, as a food bank for the poor". Cherry Hill was regarded "as much a community center as it was a church" which also included a "rigorous preschool" called "Central Area Mothers for Peace" that in thirty years laid claim to educating more than 6,000 children. Before it was razed in 2018 to make room for townhomes, it was home to "Tent City 3" which provided shelter to 50 people, as per a post by [https://www.facebook.com/vanishingseattle/posts/cherry-hill-baptist-church-at-700-22nd-ave-cherry-and-22nd-in-the-centraldistric/1664527626959852/ Vanishing Seattle], a Facebook group. The post also includes modern pictures of the structure. CHBC relocated and rebranded in 2018 as [https://www.facebook.com/TheChristSpiritChurch/ Christ Spirit Church] in Beacon Hill.
* 4th Ave. & Roy St., Seattle, foot of Queen Anne Hill, one block north of Civic Auditorium +1922-1950+
* 516 N.W. 56th, Seattle +1954-2000+
* 18029 67th Ave. SE, Snohomish 2011?-current;
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