A Selma, Alabama, church with historic ties to the 1960s voting rights movement has landed on the 2022 Most Endangered Places list -- because of termites.
Thousands line up outside Brown Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church in March 2015 to begin a walk marking the 50th anniversary of"Bloody Sunday," when civil rights protesters were beaten, trampled and tear-gassed by police at the Edmund Pettus Bridge.Brown Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church has been forced to close to its congregation and the public"for the foreseeable future" due to termite damage, says the National Trust for Historic Preservation.
The first frame structure was erected on the present site in 1869 and re-erected in 1908."During the 1960s the church became known throughout the world for its role in the Voting Rights Movement, that brought about the 'Bloody Sunday' confrontation with state and local law enforcement, and the subsequent march from the church to the state Capitol in Montgomery," says the church on its website."It is the only building remaining of the work of A.J.
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