Holly Grove Baptist (Houston County, Ga.)

Little information survives about Holly Baptist Church. African American churches like this one emerged all across the south where sharecropping was the primary way of life in an agricultural economy that would slowly diminish as Georgia began to develop cities and an industrial base. As a result, many African Americans participated in a mass migration to the cities and the industrial centers of the north to seek a better life. For those that stayed, life was hard but the church sustained them as the center of spiritual comfort and social interaction.