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3 days ago · Montgomery, capital of the state of Alabama, U.S., and seat (1822) of Montgomery county, located in the central part of the state. The city lies near the point where the Alabama River is formed by the confluence of the Coosa and Tallapoosa rivers. It was originally the site of Native American
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May 4, 2024 · Montgomery, AL. The Hank Williams Museum is not a tourist stop, it’s a step back into the life of Country Music’s first superstar – Hank Williams. You will be captivated by the southern charm of the Museum and once again be spellbound by the magic of Hank Williams!
May 17, 2024 · Rosa Parks (born February 4, 1913, Tuskegee, Alabama, U.S.—died October 24, 2005, Detroit, Michigan) was an American civil rights activist whose refusal to relinquish her seat on a public bus precipitated the 1955–56 Montgomery bus boycott in Alabama, which became the spark that ignited the civil rights movement in the United States.
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- Who was Rosa Parks?Rosa Parks was an American civil rights activist whose refusal to give up her seat on a public bus precipitated the 1955–56 Montgomery bus boycott...
- Why is Rosa Parks important?When Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery, Alabama, city bus for white passengers in 1955, she was arrested for violating the cit...
- Was Rosa Parks the first Black woman to refuse to give up her seat on a segregated bus?Rosa Parks was not the first Black woman to refuse to give up her seat on a segregated bus, though her story attracted the most attention nationwid...
- What did Rosa Parks write?In 1992 Rosa Parks published Rosa Parks: My Story, an autobiography written with Jim Haskins that described her role in the American civil rights m...
2 days ago · 0165344 [5] Website. montgomeryal.gov. Montgomery is the capital city of the U.S. state of Alabama and the county seat of Montgomery County. [9] Named for Continental Army Major General Richard Montgomery, it stands beside the Alabama River, on the coastal Plain of the Gulf of Mexico. The population was 200,603 at the 2020 census. [6]
22 hours ago · Newsman's photos of Bloody Sunday captured a pivotal moment in Civil Rights history. On March 7, 1965 600 activists gathered to march from Selma to Montgomery, in protest of the continued ...
May 17, 2024 · The structure of Montgomery Reef is not entirely a product of coral. The feature was once a flat-topped terrestrial mesa made of dolomite and sandstone that formed some 1.8 billion years ago . More recently, this ancient structure has been encrusted with a veneer of marine life, especially rhodolith —a free-floating type of coralline algae ...
May 3, 2024 · Thank you! EJI is a 501 (c)3 nonprofit organization and all donations are tax deductible to the extent allowed by law and do not represent payment for goods or services received. EJI devotes over 94% of expenses to core program services. To send a donation by check, please mail to: Equal Justice Initiative 122 Commerce St., Montgomery, AL 36104.
