'This is where we start': BLM movement boosts decades-long effort to preserve Maine's oldest Black church

Black Lives Matter joins the effort to restore and preserve The Abyssinian Meeting House, underway since 1998.
Author: Zach Blanchard (NEWS CENTER Maine)
Published: 5:05 PM EST February 24, 2021
Updated: 6:30 PM EST February 24, 2021
PORTLAND, Maine — Nestled on Portland's Munjoy Hill in the shadow of construction for a new office building, the Abyssinian Meeting House would be easy to miss. 
Its rich history, however, is impossible to overlook.
"This to me is a national monument, not yet defined," Leonard Cummings said.
Cummings knows all there is to know about the nearly 200-year-old Meeting House that was once was at the center of the civil rights movement in Maine, even before slavery was abolished.

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