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Discover Montgomery, Alabama
The first capital city of the Confederacy and an important link in the renowned Cotton Belt, Montgomery is today more widely known for its role as the unwilling host to the historic Civil Rights marches, inspired by a local seamstress, Rosa Parks, who was too tired to give up her bus seat on her way home from work one day in December 1955. Her calm defiance attracted the admiration of the city’s popular preacher, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., who emerged on the local and national stage when he organized the famed Montgomery Bus Boycott, which ignited the national Civil Rights movement. Centrally located on the south bank of the Alabama River, this capital city is emblematic of the historic clashes from its role in the 1860’s War Between the States and its involuntary part in the Civil Rights movement 100 years later. Within one city block remnants of these historical events compete in their respective historic structures, memorials, monuments and museum exhibits. .....

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