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Pastor of Tabernacle Baptist for forty years from 1956, Hamilton led Augusta's NAACP through the early 1960s, pressing to hire the city's first Black police, desegregate its lunch counters and library, and winning a seat on the City Council.
Rev. Dr. Charles Spencer Hamilton is a historical marker in Augusta, Richmond County. It is one of 148 historical markers documented in Richmond County, among 249 historic sites cataloged across the county on Georgia Roam.
The site sits at 33.4659, -81.9798 near Augusta. The nearest cataloged historic site is Tabernacle Baptist Church (historical marker), about under a tenth of a mile away. Others within a short drive include William Carpenter, Sr., Frank Garvin Yerby, and Atty. Judson Whitlocke Lyons.
This record is drawn from Georgia historical-marker records. Use the map below for its exact position and turn-by-turn directions.
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