4675 x 4096 px | 39,6 x 34,7 cm | 15,6 x 13,7 inches | 300dpi
Aufnahmedatum:
3. Mai 2010
Ort:
Dexter Ave & Decatur St, Montgomery, AL 36104, Alabama, United States USA
Weitere Informationen:
The Dexter Avenue Baptist Church was formed in 1877 and the present building was built in 1885. It was the second Baptist Church in Montgomery. Rev Martin Luther King was a minister here from 1954 to 1960. He organized the Montgomery Bus Boycott from his basement office. There is a National Historic Trail sign in front of the Dexter Avenue King Memorial Baptist Church. It is steps away from the Alabama State Capitol at the end of Dexter Avenue on the left at 600 Dexter. The third and successful of the 1965 Selma to Montgomery Civil Rights Marches ended here in front of the steps of the Capitol (visible). There is a commemorating stone on the corner of Dexter and Decatur (visible). The Selma to Montgomery National Historic Trail commemorates the events, people and route of the 1965 Voting Rights March in Alabama led by Rev Martin Luther King and other religious and civil rights leaders. The trail is located on U.S. Highway 80 and extends 54 miles from Brown Chapel A.M.E. Church in Selma, Alabama, through Lowndes County, to the Alabama State Capitol in Montgomery, Alabama. [www.nps.gov/semo] - In March 1965 there were three marches from Selma to Montgomery Alabama that changed history: on March 7th a first march led by Freedom Rider John Lewis and Baptist Minister Hosea Williams to Montgomery was stopped at Selma city limits at Edmund Pettus Bridge with so much violence, it became known as Bloody Sunday. The second march on March 9th led by Rev. Martin Luther King again confronted the police force at the bridge, but sat down in prayer and returned peacefully to the church in Selma. One of the white ministers was killed later that day by the KKK. On March 15 President Johnson presented the Voting Rights Act to Congress. The third march, protected by federal troops and police, on March 21 to 25th led by King and many others reached the State Capitol in Montgomery. The march was peaceful, but the KKK killed one of the volunteers on her way back.
