Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
SummaryFive Black men wearing suits and 3 Black women wearing hats and dress clothes (two men and one woman are wearing star-shaped pendants) standing in front of a table on which is a white, eight-tiered, cross-topped cake. Man in center is cutting the cake. Caption: "Mark amazing success of church drive--Celebrating the fact that $640,411 has been raised since Nov. 4 by campaign workers of burned-out Concord Baptist Church to rebuild edifice at Marcy and Putnam Aves., the Rev. Dr. Gardner C. Taylor, pastor, cuts huge cake at a service of thanksgiving in the temporary church quarters, 166 Adelphi St. Participating in the happy event were leaders of the drive, including, left to right and flanking pastor, Dewey E. Chester, James Foulkes, Mrs. Ethel Bing, Mrs. Florence Van Keuren, Mrs. Bertha Epps, and Deacons Thomas Mann and Harry P. Lewis. Dr. Harold Browne, drive director, is not shown. A Concord fund executive commitee, composed of the representatives of all faiths, is also conducting a campaign to rebuild the church. The total goal is $1,000,000."
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