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    Selma’s Brown Chapel: When a building is more than bricks and mortar

    by Gary G. Yerkey Jun 13, 2022 3 minutes

    I awoke early on the morning of March 21, 1965, in Selma, Alabama, and headed straight for Brown Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church. The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was scheduled to speak there at the start of a long-planned voting rights march to the State Capitol in Montgomery, 54 miles away. It was the third attempt.

    From the steps of the church, the future Nobel Peace Prize winner told us that, as participants, we would be helping make Alabama “a new Alabama” and

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