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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2E0W_historic-sites-near-fairview-environmental-park_Montgomery-AL.html
Historic Sites Near Fairview Environmental Park. . Role of MIA . The Montgomery Improvement Association (MIA) was founded on December 5, 1955, to implement the 382-day Montgomery Bus Boycott that jumpstarted the 20th-century Civil Rights Movement…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2CQA_st-paul-a-m-e-church_Montgomery-AL.html
St. Paul A.M.E. Church. . By the turn of the twentieth century, African Americans were gathering on Hardaway Street in a brush arbor to worship. In 1907, they incorporated what is now known as St. Paul African Methodist Episcopal Church, with Rev.…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2CQ9_rosa-parks-returns-to-st-paul-ame-rosa-parkss-faith-guided-her-life_Montgomery-AL.html
Rosa Parks Returns to St. Paul AME, also, Rosa Parks's Faith Guided Her Life. . Rosa Parks Returns to St. Paul AME. Rosa Louise McCauley Parks, the Mother of the Civil Rights Movement, passed away in Detroit on Oct. 24, 2005 at the age of 92.…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2A7C_lower-dexter-park_Montgomery-AL.html
History Happened Here The City of Montgomery built this public park on one of the lots occupied by the Montgomery Fair Department Store. Rosa Parks was an assistant to the tailor for Montgomery Fair. On December 1, 1955, Mrs. Parks left her…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM28OB_racial-inequality-in-the-united-states_Montgomery-AL.html
Black and brown people in the United States often are presumed dangerous and guilty when thet have done nothing wrong. Our history of racial inequality has created conscious and unconscious bias that has resulted in racial discrimination against p…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2809_the-national-memorial-for-peace-and-justice_Montgomery-AL.html
In the 17th and 18th centuries, 12 million African people were kidnapped, chained, and brought to the Americas after a torturous journey across the Atlantic Ocean. Nearly two million people died during the voyage. The labor of enslaved black peopl…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM27ZN_montgomery-racial-segregation-on-buses_Montgomery-AL.html
On multiple occasions in 1955, black women were arrested for challenging Montgomery's law requiring racial segregation on buses. The arrest of Rosa Parks sparked a mass protest that launched the modern civil rights movement and brought to prominen…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM27ZM_the-transatlantic-slave-trade_Montgomery-AL.html
The Transatlantic Slave Trade killed millions of African people. Men, women, and children were kidnapped and taken in chains to the Americas to create wealth for Europeans. For over two centuries, enslaved black people in the United States were ba…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM27CR_combat-skyspot_Montgomery-AL.html
Dedicated to the brave men who served at Lima Site 85 Lt Col Clarence F Blanton ♦ MSgt James H Calfee + SSgt John Daniel SSgt James W Davis + CMSgt Richard L Etchberger ♦ SSgt Henry G Gish + TSgt Willis R Hall + TS…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM27CF_campsite-4_Montgomery-AL.html
Final stop before arrival at State Capitol March 24, 1965
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