Green Street Baptist Church (Louisville, Ky.)

Reverend Bottoms recollects his early life; his education at Simmons University; the transition of Simmons University to Simmons Bible College and the relations of this to the origin of the Louisville Municipal College of the University of Louisville; and his work as pastor of Green Street Baptist Church.

The eldest son of the Reverend H. Wise Jones, who was the minister of the Green Street Baptist from 1912 until 1950, discusses the history of the church, the role that religion and the church played in his life and the lives of Blacks in Louisville. He also discusses the role that the Black Baptist church played in the 1950s and 1960s civil rights movement in Louisville and the United States.