your5best | CIVIL RIGHTS Landmarks in Montgomery, Alabama @freshishealthy | Uploaded November 2020 | Updated October 2024, 21 hours ago.
Montgomery, Alabama is home to many of the nation's most significant civil rights events. In its infancy, slave traders used the nearby Alabama river to traffic fellow humans for the surrounding cotton plantations. At peak demand, Montgomery was named the original capital of the Confederate States of America and Jefferson Davis was inaugurated as the first Confederate President on the marble steps of the Alabama State Capitol at Montgomery's city center. Nearly 100 years later, Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., led the third march from Selma to Montgomery for Civil Rights, leading to the passage of the Voting Rights Act. Click the timestamps below to see must-visit sites in this history-rich town:
0:02 Civil Rights Memorial
0:24 Martin Luther King's Home
0:56 Dexter Avenue King Memorial Baptist Church
1:38 Dexter Avenue King Memorial Legacy Center
2:06 The Legacy Museum
2:22 The Rosa Parks Museum
2:46 The National Memorial for Peace and Justice
Montgomery, Alabama is home to many of the nation's most significant civil rights events. In its infancy, slave traders used the nearby Alabama river to traffic fellow humans for the surrounding cotton plantations. At peak demand, Montgomery was named the original capital of the Confederate States of America and Jefferson Davis was inaugurated as the first Confederate President on the marble steps of the Alabama State Capitol at Montgomery's city center. Nearly 100 years later, Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., led the third march from Selma to Montgomery for Civil Rights, leading to the passage of the Voting Rights Act. Click the timestamps below to see must-visit sites in this history-rich town:
0:02 Civil Rights Memorial
0:24 Martin Luther King's Home
0:56 Dexter Avenue King Memorial Baptist Church
1:38 Dexter Avenue King Memorial Legacy Center
2:06 The Legacy Museum
2:22 The Rosa Parks Museum
2:46 The National Memorial for Peace and Justice
