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An estimated 1,000 people gathered on May 31 for a rally and march. [6] The protests became increasingly violent as the day went on; by the evening, demonstrators downtown toppled a statue of Charles Linn, damaged a Thomas Jefferson statue, and broke windows with rocks at the Jefferson County courthouse downtown while also attempting to tear down a 115-year-old Confederate monument at Linn ...
The work in Montgomery is related to a larger multi-agency effort since 2009 between the Alabama Department of Environmental Management (ADEM), EPA and the National Park Service to improve areas along the National Historic Voting Rights Trail to enable local communities to thrive.
Mary Louise Ware (née Smith; born 1937) is an African-American civil rights activist.She was arrested in October 1955 at the age of 18 in Montgomery, Alabama for refusing to give up her seat on the segregated bus system.
A Black woman transformed by leaving a virtually all-white Alabama hometown where new ideas about race and justice run up against Old South traditions, Dunston has led regular protests since ...
Pages in category "Riots and civil disorder in Alabama" ... 0–9. 1919 Lynching in Montgomery, Alabama; A. 1920 Alabama coal strike; ... George Floyd protests in ...
Montgomery bus boycott (1 C, 23 P) P. Poor People's Campaign (21 P) R. ... Pages in category "Protests in Alabama" The following 13 pages are in this category, out of ...
About the same time, the Alabama Supreme Court ruled against Martin Luther King's appeal of his "illegal boycott" conviction. [53] Rosa Parks left Montgomery due to death threats and employment blacklisting. [54] According to Charles Silberman, "by 1963, most Negroes in Montgomery had returned to the old custom of riding in the back of the bus ...
WSFA (channel 12) is a television station in Montgomery, Alabama, United States, affiliated with NBC. It is owned by Gray Media alongside low-power, Class A Telemundo affiliate WBXM-CD (channel 15). The two stations share studios on Dexter Avenue in downtown Montgomery; WSFA's transmitter is located in Grady along the Montgomery–Pike county line.