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February 14, 2012 News & Features » News and Features

Beacon on the Hill 

Two hundred years after its founder’s birth, Sixth Mount Zion celebrates its unlikely triumph.

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To this day, no one knows for certain why Sixth Mount Zion Baptist Church was spared. Mid-century planners already had decided to route Interstate 95 right through the black neighborhood of Jackson Ward — and the church on Duval Street was…

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