Brown Chapel A.M.E. Church (Selma, Alabama)

Infobox_nrhp | name =Brown Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church
nrhp_type =nhl


caption = Brown Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church, taken in 2000.
location= 410 Martin Luther King, Jr., Street, Selma, Alabama
lat_degrees = 32
lat_minutes = 24
lat_seconds = 44.65
lat_direction = N
long_degrees = 87
long_minutes = 0
long_seconds = 58.19
long_direction = W
locmapin = Alabama
area =
built =1908
architect= Farley,A.J.
architecture= No Style Listed
designated= December 12, 1997cite web|url=http://tps.cr.nps.gov/nhl/detail.cfm?ResourceId=-1821008891&ResourceType=Building
title=Brown Chapel A.M.E. Church |accessdate=2007-10-19|work=National Historic Landmark summary listing|publisher=National Park Service]
added = February 04, 1982cite web|url=http://www.nr.nps.gov/|title=National Register Information System|date=2007-01-23|work=National Register of Historic Places|publisher=National Park Service]
governing_body = Private
refnum=82002009

Brown Chapel A.M.E. Church is a church in Selma, Alabama. This church was a starting point for the Selma to Montgomery marches in 1965 and 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.

It was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1997.citation|title=PDFlink| [http://pdfhost.focus.nps.gov/docs/NHLS/Text/82002009.pdf National Register of Historic Places Inventory-Nomination: Brown Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church / Brown Chapel] |329 KB|date=August 29, 1997 |author=Cecil N. McKithan |publisher=National Park Service and PDFlink| [http://pdfhost.focus.nps.gov/docs/NHLS/Photos/82002009.pdf Accompanying 8 photos, exterior and interior, from 1997.] |1.33 MB]

ee also

*List of National Historic Landmarks in Alabama

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