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

Historic church in Alabama, United States

Field	Value
name	Brown Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church
nrhp_type	nhl
image	Brown Chapel AME.jpg
caption	Brown Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church, taken in 2000.
location	410 Martin Luther King, Jr., Street, Selma, Alabama
coordinates
locmapin	Alabama#USA
area	less than one acre
built
architect	A. J. Farley
architecture	Romanesque Revival
designated_nrhp_type	December 12, 1997{{cite web
url	http://tps.cr.nps.gov/nhl/detail.cfm?ResourceId=-1821008891&ResourceType=Building
title	Brown Chapel A.M.E. Church
access-date	October 19, 2007
work	National Historic Landmark summary listing
publisher	National Park Service
url-status	dead
archive-url	https://web.archive.org/web/20080111045121/http://tps.cr.nps.gov/nhl/detail.cfm?ResourceId=-1821008891&ResourceType=Building
archive-date	January 11, 2008
added	February 4, 1982
refnum	82002009
designated_other1_name	Alabama Register of Landmarks and Heritage
designated_other1_abbr	ARLH
designated_other1_color	#CDE5B2
designated_other1_link	Alabama Register of Landmarks and Heritage
designated_other1_date	June 16, 1976

|access-date=October 19, 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080111045121/http://tps.cr.nps.gov/nhl/detail.cfm?ResourceId=-1821008891&ResourceType=Building |archive-date=January 11, 2008

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.

It was added to the Alabama Register of Landmarks and Heritage on June 16, 1976 and later declared a National Historic Landmark on February 4, 1982.

The structure sustained significant damage from termites and mold while it was unoccupied during the COVID-19 pandemic, and it was included on the National Trust for Historic Preservation's annual list of America's 11 Most Endangered Places in 2022.

Description

The Brown Chapel A.M.E. Church is located northeast of downtown Selma, on the east side of Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard between St. Johns Street and Clark Avenue. It is a large masonry structure, built out of red brick with white stone trim. Stylistically it is basically Romanesque Revival, built in the shape of a Greek cross with Byzantine influences. Its facade has its entries recessed behind an arcade of three rounded arches, and is flanked by a pair of square towers topped by octagonal lanterns and cupolas. The only major exterior alteration is a functional addition to the rear, housing kitchen and other facilities.

The church was built in 1908 to a design by A. J. Farley. Its congregation arose out of a combined African-American and white congregation of Methodists which separated by race in 1866. Its first sanctuary was built on this site in 1869. It is best known today for its role as the site of organizational meetings related to several major events in the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s. The Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), one of the principal organizations of civil rights activists, used the church as its Selma headquarters during protest activities organized in 1964 and 1965 that led to the eventual passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

References

{{NRISref
"Properties on the Alabama Register of Landmarks & Heritage". www.preserveala.org.
Cecil N. McKithan. (August 29, 1997). ["Brown Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church"]({{NHLS url). National Park Service.
Jay Reeves. (May 4, 2022). "Alabama church of 'Bloody Sunday' on endangered places list".
[https://savingplaces.org/stories/11-most-endangered-historic-places-for-2022#.YyU4HbTMI2w Discover America's 11 Most Endangered Historic Places for 2022], National Trust for Historic Preservation (May 4, 2022).

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