Selma Photo Album

Brown Chapel AME Church

Brown Chapel AME Church was the starting place for the 1965 Selma to Montgomery marches.

A memorial to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. sits in front of Brown Chapel AME Church.

Civil Rights Memorial Park.

As Selma, Alabama moves forward, vestiges of the past still exist. Jeff Davis Avenue crosses Martin Luther King Street.

Civil rights demonstrators marched across the Edmund Pettus Bridge on their way from Selma to Montgomery in 1965.

This memorial celebrates Hosea Williams, who helped to organize the Selma to Montgomery marches.

A hood and robe of the Ku Klux Klan. The Ku Klux Klan violently opposed civil rights, and terrorized African Americans and others who sought to achieve equality.

In Selma there are many memorials honoring the Civil Rights Movement.

The National Voting Rights Museum, located in Selma, Alabama, commemorates the struggle to bring about the Voting Rights Act of 1965.