Brown Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church
Historic church in Alabama, United States in Selma, Alabama. Built 1908. Added to the National Register in 1982, and a National Historic Landmark.
What it is
Brown Chapel A.M.E. Church is a church at 410 Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard in Selma, Alabama, United States. This church was a starting point for the Selma to Montgomery marches in 1965 and, as the meeting place and offices of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) during the Selma Movement, played a major role in the events that led to the adoption of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. The nation's reaction to Selma's "Bloody Sunday" march is widely credited with making the passage of the Voting Rights Act politically viable in the United States Congress.
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The record
| Property type | Building |
| Address | 410 Martin Luther King, Jr. St., Selma, AL |
| County | Dallas County |
| Listed | Feb 4, 1982 |
| Reference number | 82002009 |
| Built | 1908 |
| Type of place | church building |
| Style | Romanesque Revival architecture |
| Designations | National Historic Landmark, listed on the Alabama Register of Landmarks and Heritage |
| Contributing resources | 1 buildings |
| Standing | Yes |
The nomination form, the document that argues why this place matters, is in the National Archives: Read the nomination ↗
Visiting
| Address | 410 Martin Luther King, Jr. St., Selma, AL |
| Coordinates | 32.41247, -87.01604 · Directions ↗ |
| Nearest national park unit | Selma To Montgomery National Historic Trail · 19 mi · on Park Atlas |
| Federal campgrounds nearby | Six Mile Creek 6 mi · Paul Grist State Park 12 mi · Prairie Creek (Al) 15 mi |
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Location, dates, type and contributing counts come from the National Park Service's National Register spatial data. Construction date, architect, style, photograph and encyclopedia link come from Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons, matched on reference number 82002009. Nothing here is transcribed by hand. The description under "What it is" is the opening of the Wikipedia article, CC BY-SA.