This simple white structure was an empty house when its owners – Matthew and Emma Jackson – loaned it to the Student Nonviolent …
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Tabernacle Baptist Church
Tabernacle Baptist was organized in 1884 for Selma University students, faculty and emerging middle-class Negroes. The church’s …
Sullivan and Richie Jean Sherrod Jackson Museum
The Jackson Museum tells a family’s unique story of three generations, and the private residence where Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. …
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First (Colored) Baptist Church
The congregation of Selma’s First “Colored” Baptist Church was organized in the early 1840s by a freed slave, Samuel …