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    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...
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  • Chapel A.M.E. Church (Selma, Alabama) Brown Chapel A.M.E. Church (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) List of African Methodist Episcopal churches This disambiguation...
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    county. The Selma Voting Rights Campaign officially started on January 2, 1965, when King addressed a mass meeting in Brown Chapel A.M.E. Church in defiance...
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    Selma is a city in and the county seat of Dallas County, in the Black Belt region of south central Alabama and extending to the west. Located on the banks...
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  • Birmingham, Alabama 16th Street Baptist Church are killed by a bomb set by the Ku Klux Klan. Annie Lee Cooper attempts to register to vote in Selma, Alabama, but...
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  • going into Brown Chapel AME Church one day while playing outside with her friends. They are told that Dr. King has come to Selma, Alabama to help the...
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    Business (US 80 Bus.) across the Alabama River in Selma, Alabama. Built in 1940, it is named after Edmund Pettus, a former Confederate brigadier general...
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    Hampton, New York Brown Chapel AME Church, Selma, Alabama Camp Naco, Naco, Arizona Chicano/a/x Community Murals of Colorado The Deborah Chapel, Hartford, Connecticut...
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    towns of Heiberger, Selma, and Movico in Alabama as large and destructive tornadoes were reported. The same storm that hit Selma prompted tornado emergencies...
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    followed a 54-mile (87 km) route along U.S. Highway 80 from Brown Chapel A.M.E. Church in Selma through Lowndes County to the State Capitol in Montgomery...
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  • Yuchi Town Apalachicola Fort Site Brown Chapel A.M.EChurch Edmund Pettus Bridge Fort Toulouse Gaineswood St. Andrew's Church Fort Mitchell Tuskegee Institute...
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  • church evolved as a division within the Methodist Episcopal Church denomination. The first AME Zion church was founded in 1800. Like the AME Church,...
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  • Murder of Jimmie Lee Jackson (category Selma to Montgomery marches)
    nearby Selma, Alabama, to help local activists in their voter registration campaign. Jackson attended meetings several nights a week at Zion's Chapel Methodist...
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    parts of the route throughout Selma and near the Mississippi border. Serving as the main east to west highway through Alabama's Black Belt region, US 80 became...
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    Terri Sewell (redirect from Terri A. Sewell)
    Huntsville, Alabama. They are divorced. Sewell is a lifetime member of Brown Chapel AME Church in Selma, Alabama. She is the cousin of Briana Sewell, a delegate...
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  • Civil rights workers in Selma, Alabama, begin the Selma to Montgomery march but are attacked and stopped by a massive Alabama State trooper and police...
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    Sheyann Webb (category Activists from Selma, Alabama)
    scenario for Alabama in the 1960s, Webb and her friend Rachel West followed a group of both black and white people into Brown's Chapel AME Church and took...
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    Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Montgomery, Alabama, United States, affiliated with the Progressive National Baptist Convention. The church was designated...
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  • List of African-American historic places (category Articles with hatnote templates targeting a nonexistent page)
    Street Baptist Church, Birmingham Alabama Penny Savings Bank, Birmingham Brown Chapel A.M.E. Church, Selma Butler Chapel AME Zion Church, Greenville Calhoun...
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  • Church bombing was a terrorist bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama on September 15, 1963. The bombing was committed by a...
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    Ralph Abernathy (category Selma to Montgomery marches)
    Montgomery; Albany, Georgia; Birmingham, Mississippi, Washington D.C., Selma, Alabama; St. Augustine, Florida; Chicago, and Memphis. King and Abernathy journeyed...
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    Southern Christian Leadership Conference (category Selma to Montgomery marches)
    SNCC who had been organizing in Selma since early 1963, the Voting Rights Campaign commenced with a rally in Brown Chapel on January 2, 1965, in defiance...
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    Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee, where King died Brown Chapel A.M.E. Church in Selma, Alabama Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial on the National Mall...
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    Frederick D. Reese (category Activists from Selma, Alabama)
    was active as a minister at Selma's Ebenezer Missionary Baptist Church. Reese was born in Selma, Alabama. In 1951, he graduated from Alabama State University...
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  • United Methodist Church Archived 2008-07-03 at the Wayback Machine Mother Bethel A.M.E. Church Adelle Rivers (2005). "Andrews Chapel". Washington County...
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    community first settled in 1753. Brown Chapel A.M.E. Church (Selma, Alabama). The starting point for the 1965 Selma to Montgomery marches and meeting...
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    James Bevel (category Selma to Montgomery marches)
    injured. In March 1965 protesters made a symbolic march, inspired by a fiery speech by Bevel at Brown Chapel A.M.E. Church, where much organizing was done....
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  • James Reeb (category Selma to Montgomery marches)
    Boston, Massachusetts. While participating in the Selma to Montgomery marches actions in Selma, Alabama, in 1965, he was murdered by white segregationists...
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  • Annie Lee Cooper (category Activists from Selma, Alabama)
    She is best known for punching Dallas County, Alabama Sheriff Jim Clark in the face during the 1965 Selma to Montgomery marches. Annie Lee Wilkerson Cooper...
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    The 16th Street Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Birmingham, Alabama, United States. In 1963, the church was bombed by Ku Klux Klan members. The...
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