Cleveland’s Olivet Institutional Baptist Church is the newest site to be recognized for its role in the city’s civil rights movement.
The Cleveland Civil Rights Trail, organized by the Cleveland Restoration Society, honors sites of significance focusing on the period from the 1950s to the 1970s.
Under the leadership of Rev. Odie Hoover, Olivet served as a meeting point for Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., when he visited Cleveland, and members of the church’s leadership, including former Pastor Otis Moss Jr., who participated in the Selma to Montgomery march…