From 1963 to 1965, under the leadership of Reverend M.C. Cleveland Jr., First Baptist Church in Selma was the first church in the city to open its doors to members of the Dallas County Voters League and young activists from the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. It became a frequent site of mass meetings and nonviolence training sessions that led to rallies and demonstrations culminating in the historic march to Montgomery. In December 1964, law enforcement authorities in Selma sought an injunction against mass meetings. Martin Luther King Jr. purposely broke the law by delivering a speech at Brown Chapel on January 2, 1965. Although Brown Chapel became King's headquarters during the march to Montgomery, King and his colleagues were frequent speakers at First Baptist, which was aptly called "The Movement Church." There many African Americans learned the principles of nonviolent protest, sang freedom songs, and filled out voter registration forms for the first time.