People Commemorate Selma at Brown Chapel Where Movement Began
People gathered for a service at Brown Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Selma on Friday, March 6, as part of a series of events to commemorate 50 years since the Selma Voting Rights Movement that culminated in the passage of the Voting Rights Act. The movement began in Brown Chapel in 1965, when Martin Luther King Jr. addressed a meeting there in January, defying a police injunction.
March 7 marks 50 years since Bloody Sunday when state police attacked those who were marching across the Edmund Pettus Bridge en route to Montgomery. Two weeks after the violent crackdown, a peaceful march took place under the protection of US army troops ordered by President Johnson. Johnson introduced a bill to a joint session of Congress on March which later passed and become the Voting Rights Act that came in to effect on August 6, 1965. Credit: InstagramvickydolphiaFollow
