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Brown Chapel AME Church

Selma church that served as headquarters for the 1965 Voting Rights Campaign and starting point for all three Selma-to-Montgomery marches.

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Built in 1908. Brown Chapel's pastor Reverend P. H. Lewis hosted SCLC organizers when no other building in Selma would. The march on Bloody Sunday began here and concluded against tear gas at the Edmund Pettus Bridge.

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410 Martin Luther King St, Selma, AL, USA

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