New Bethel Baptist Church was organized July 24, 1924, and was first called Bethel Baptist. The first service was held July 20, 1924, and the first pastor was the Rev. J. H. McDavis.

Detroit — Detroit's New Bethel Baptist Church, where parishioners still think of the church as that of the late-Rev. C.L. Franklin, despite the Rev. Robert Smith’s decades as senior pastor, ...

This year marks the 60th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. first delivering his I Have A Dream speech, which occurred right here in Detroit.