James Orange

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 seated in the foreground during a gathering at Brown Chapel AME Church, with community members seated and standing behind him.
Photo courtesy of the Alabama Department of Archives and History, Jim Peppler Collection
James Orange seated in the foreground during a gathering at Brown Chapel AME Church, with community members seated and standing behind him.