montgomery

     

Montgomery or Montgomerie may refer to:

Trivia about montgomery

  • In 1955 Martin Luther King, Jr. led a boycott of this Alabama capital's segregated bus system
  • It's the state capital on the Alabama River
  • The first White House of the Confederacy stands on Washington St. in this Alabama city
  • This city is the center of Alabama's fertile "Black Belt" agricultural area
  • In 1819, the southern towns New Philadelphia & E. Alabama merged to form this city, later a capital
  • Rosa Parks' 1955 arrest led to a yearlong bus boycott in this Alabama city
  • Middle name of Chatham-born merchant Aaron Ward
  • In 1819 East Alabama & New Philadelphia were consolidated into this
  • (Cheryl of the Clue Crew reads from Birmingham, AL in front of the Edmund Pettus Bridge.) It took three tries, but finally, several thousand crossed the Edmund Pettus Bridge in 1965 on a Civil Rights march from Selma to this state capital
  • This state capital was founded in 1819 from 2 towns: East Alabama & New Philadelphia
  • American catalog merchant & businessman Aaron Ward
  • Rosa Parks helped make this city "The Birthplace of the Civil Rights Movement"
  • This capital was created when adjoining settlements, East Alabama & Alabama, merged in 1819
  • If you're visiting the White House--the first White House of the Confederacy, that is--you're in this city
  • This WWII British commander who led the 21st Army Group at Normandy passed away on March 24, 1976
  • In 1989 Julian Bond dedicated a civil rights memorial designed by Maya Lin in this Southern state capital
  • Assuming command of Britain's Eighth Army, he said "We are going to finish with this chap Rommel once and for all"
  • This general & war hero slowed down long enough to be captured (on film) around 1945

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