Voices of Alabama: Brown Chapel AME Church

Meet Joyce O'Neal, a member of Brown Chapel AME Church in Selma, Alabama, who provides her oral history of the site and its pivotal role in the African-American struggle for freedom.

Voices of Alabama documents the histories of 20 sites across Alabama that changed the world. Explore them all at VoicesofAlabama.org.

Archival images for this video provided by: James Barker; estate of Spider Martin; Alabama Department of Archives and History; Alabama Department of Archives and History, donated by Alabama Media Group, photo by Spider Martin, Birmingham News.