An Alabama church that was at the center of the voting rights movement in the 1960s is now eaten up by termites and damaged by water leaks
Brown Chapel AME Church
The red brick church, with distinctive twin bell towers and a domed ceiling, tops this year's list of the nation's most endangered historic places, according to the Washington, D.C.-based, National Trust for Historic Preservation, a nonprofit organization which works to highlight and preserve sites that are in danger of being lost. Other places on the list include:
— Palmer Memorial Institute, a boarding school built in 1902 for Black youths in Greensboro, North Carolina., an African American burial ground in Houston, Texas, dating to 1875 and containing more than 4,000 graves., the site in Jamestown, Virginia, where enslaved people first arrived in America and where the first publicly elected assembly in the United States met.
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