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 Audrey & Hanks resting place by Yaqui
You can contact the Hank Williams Museum for more information.
Directions: From the Statue go to the 2nd light turn right on Jefferson St pass Montgomery Police Station see Oakwood Cemetry Annex-1304 on left continue on Wetumpk Road until you see Hank Williams marble momument last entrance go to top of hill turn right at fork. Leave a Comment Phone: 334-262-3600Website: HankWilliamsMus@aol.com
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On January 30, 1956, MLK’s home was bombed, an act which inspired the MIA to file a federal law suit directly challenging the laws that established bus segregation. During the month of February, the city police arrested nearly 100 African Americans for violating Alabama’s anti – boycott law, placing a national focus on the City of Montgomery. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was arrested, tried, and convicted on March 22.
In April, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the laws requiring bus segregation; however, the mayor of Montgomery refused to abide by the ruling.
On Thursday, December 20, 1956, the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling was finally put into place after a very long legal battle. Despite numerous external factors – Ku Klux Klan intimidation, police harassment, and bombings – Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and several other civil rights leaders boarded a public bus, in front of him home, on December 21, 1956, highlighting the success of the boycott.
In the picture you see the main lobby of the Montgomery Police Station where MLK was booked and processed. Leave a Comment
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On December 1, 1955, while riding a bus in the City of Montgomery, Alabama, Mrs. Rosa Parks, a 42-year-old African-American woman, refused to obey the order of the bus driver, Mr. James Blake, who commanded that she (Mrs. Parks) give up her seat on the bus in order to make room for a boarding white passenger. Parks’s act of defiance resulted in her immediate arrest by a local police officer who had been flagged down by Mr. Blake. Even though Mrs. Parks was seated in the “colored” section of the bus, and therefore had not been occupying a white-only seat, she was nevertheless charged with violating a city ordinance pertaining to the city’s segregation law.
Parks’s refusal to budge from her seat and subsequent arrest led to the popularized Montgomery Bus Boycott, wherein local African Americans protested against both Parks’s arrest and the discriminatory practices of the public transportation administrators. Nearly a year later, the protestors would win their battle as the city’s buses and other forms of public transportation desegregated.
Even though Parks would earn nationally acclaim and a spot as one of the most influential figure in U.S. History, Parks’s actions were not applauded by everyone: she would end up losing her job as a seamstress in a local department store. Today, however, she is regarded as the “Mother of the Modern-Day Civil Rights Movement.”3
In the picture you see the exact location of where the incident took place, directly in front of what is now the Rosa Parks Library. Leave a Comment
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The center is home to many children with numerous handicaps & deformities, resulting from child abuse, birth defects, & medical malpractice. These children are wards of the State of Alabama, sons & daughters of the poor, & orphans. Walking down the halls of the facility is both uplifting & profoundly heartbreaking. If you ever find yourself in the area pay a visit to TJ or Diamond & tell them Anthony & Mike say hello.
Again, if you are interested in helping please contact me ASAP. Leave a Comment
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Due to its successful start, the Montgomery Improvement Association (MIA) came into being with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. becoming its president. As its leader, MLK became the unfortunate target of white hatred. On January 26, 1956, MLK was arrested for the very first time, being charged with conspiracy. MLK was incarcerated for quite some time in the Montgomery City Jail.
In the picture you see the main police building where MLK would have been “booked” or processed for his alleged crime. Leave a Comment
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