Voices of Alabama: Mount Zion AME Zion Church

Meet Charles P. Everett IV, member of Mount Zion AME Zion Church in Montgomery, Alabama, who provides his 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 provided by: National Archives; Library of Congress; Mt Zion AME Zion Church; The Martin Luther King, Jr. Papers Project; Alabama Department of Archives and History, donated by Alabama Media Group, photo by Ed Jones, Birmingham News; Alabama Department of Archives and History.