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Interested in fun facts and the history of Montgomery, AL?
Then read on!
Montgomery, Alabama was an important center of the Civil Rights Movement in the 1950s and 1960s. Here are a couple of historical facts/anecdotes related to that:
1. In December 1955, civil rights activist Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus to a white passenger, sparking the Montgomery Bus Boycott. The boycott lasted for over a year and eventually led to the Supreme Court ruling that segregation on public buses was unconstitutional.
2. Montgomery was also the site of the Selma to Montgomery marches in 1965. These marches were a series of nonviolent protests led by civil rights leaders such as Martin Luther King Jr. and aimed at securing voting rights for African Americans. The marches were met with violence from state and local authorities, but ultimately helped to pressure Congress to pass the Voting Rights Act of 1965.