Saving Black history: Churches, landmarks get help under project
Some historic African American sites across the nation are falling into disrepair. The African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund seeks to help.
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Some historic African American sites across the nation are falling into disrepair. The African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund seeks to help.
Officials say the historical Brown Chapel AME Church in Selma made it to the top endangered places list.
The need for major repairs at a National Historic Landmark in Selma is raising concerns about the site's future.
The Alabama church that played a role in the 1965 Bloody Sunday civil-rights march 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.
Brown Chapel AME Church in Selma, Alabama has been classified as an 'endangered' place.