African Americans of Monterey County by Jan Batiste Adkins

Author:Jan Batiste Adkins
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: unknown
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing Inc.
Published: 2015-01-15T00:00:00+00:00

In this photograph, Deacon Walter Jones stands between his aunt and uncle, with whom he lived in San Francisco before moving to Monterey with his grandmother, Mother Dora Isom of First Baptist Church. Jones attended Monterey High School in the 1950s. Later, he served as deacon under Bishop S.R. Martin. Jones continues to serve as a deacon for Greater Victory Temple Church in Seaside. (Courtesy of Walter Jones and family.)

According to church history, the African American families of Salinas began seeking to establish a church in the 1940s. Ignatius Cooper, Agnes and Louis Tebo, Joe Prada, and others began the effort of establishing a local church. The first pastor was Rev. Leroy Johnson from Fort Ord, who began holding church meetings in homes of organizers until the first location, a storefront at 213 Market Street, was acquired. In 1939, the land at the site of the present-day church was purchased in the name of St. James Colored Methodist Church. The church, an army chapel, was purchased by the early organizers in Salinas from the War Asset Administration in 1947 and moved to the land on Calle Cebu. (Both, courtesy of St. James CME.)

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