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MontgomeryMontgomery is the capital of the state of Alabama and was founded in 1819 and named after Richard Montgomery, a general in the Revolutionary War. One of the first major victories of the Civil Rights Movement took place in Montgomery in 1955. Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her seat to a white patron on a Montgomery public bus. Martin Luther King, Jr. led the city’s African American community in a year-long bus boycott that resulted in the desegregation of the bus system. The victory helped to fuel enthusiasm for civil rights in America. |
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