Birmingham native James Orange (bottom center) was a civil rights activist associated with the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and the Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights. He was a tireless organizer of protests and other direct action, including the Poor People's Campaign and the Birmingham Campaign. This photograph was taken at a January 1965 voting rights meeting at Brown Chapel A.M.E. Church in Selma.
James Orange
Photo courtesy of the Alabama Department of Archives and History, Jim Peppler Collection
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