Holt Street Baptist Church
Rosa L. Parks and E.D. Nixon, former president of the Alabama NAACP, arrive at court March 19, 1956, in Montgomery. Parks and Nixon lived in the Cleveland Avenue neighborhood. Cleveland…
Cleveland Court Apartments
Cleveland Court Apartments features a historic marker, which describes Rosa L. Parks' arrest and subsequent journey to becoming the "mother of the civil rights movement." The building that houses apartments…
Marker Tells Stories of Slave Trade, Freedom
History converges at square By Ken L. Spear, Montgomery Advertiser A historic marker unveiled in the town square on Dexter Tuesday took a crowd of Montgomerians back to more than a century…
They Too Call Alabama Home
Students get lesson in state's Black History By CHRIS BURROUGHS, Eagle Reporter Jesse Owens, Nat King Cole, Joe Louis. They are names that have become famous in America and, in…
Timeout for History
Students from the Montgomery County public schools' Time Out program listen to historian Richard Bailey at the spot where Rosa Parks was arrested in 1955 for not giving up her…