Metropolitan AME Zion Church, built in 1955 at 1530 4th Ave. N., was one of the Movement churches in Birmingham, hosting ACMHR mass meetings in 1962 and serving as one of the starting points of the massive demonstrations of April-May 1963. Project C leaders also held many of their strategy sessions in the church's basement, including training youth in the Civil Rights Movement's principles of nonviolence. Rev. Fred L. Shuttlesworth later recalled, “We stood up like men of faith, with love in our hearts.”