The U.S. is set to mark Martin Luther King Jr. Day, the federal holiday set aside to honor the life of the civil rights icon. But in Alabama and Mississippi, Monday is also Robert E. Lee Day in honor ...

600 Dexter Avenue, Montgomery, Alabama 36104 The Alabama State Capitol is a beautiful neoclassical building that was built in ...

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The 60th anniversary of the historic Selma to Montgomery civil rights marches that culminated ... and other activists led a series of protest marches in Alabama. During the weeks in which the ...

The South did not want Lincoln to be the President. At a meeting in the town of Montgomery, Alabama they formed a new government called the Confederate States of America.

Events planned in Montgomery to celebrate and honor civil rights icon Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on Monday’s holiday have been postponed due to inclement weather.

The setting of the brawl made the moment more poignant for some: Montgomery, Alabama, is known to be the birthplace of the Civil Rights Movement, the name given to the battle for racial equality ...

Alabama politics are never sedate. That helps when you’re pulling together a year-end list on the subject. One thing you can ...