The African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund (AACHAF), a program of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, announced $3 million in grant funding to protect and preserve 33 sites, including two in Alabama.
, a program of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, announced $3 million in grant funding to protect and preserve thirty-three sites representing African American history.
“At the National Trust, we aim to broaden the public’s understanding of the Black experience in America, while also underscoring the very urgent need to identify and protect these sites for the benefit of the communities they have long served. These often-overlooked places hold aspects of history that must be protected—and used to draw inspiration and wisdom for the benefit of all Americans.”
Brown Chapel A.M.E in Selma was the meeting ground for voting rights activists on March 7. 1965 before they walked more than a mile to attempt to cross the Edmund Pettus Bridge. On that day, known as “Bloody Sunday” state troopers attacked the marchers. The violence, which was broadcast on national television, became the catalyst for the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
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