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Montgomery

The New York Times

Artikler om Montgomery fra nytimes.com. Senest opdateret 3. december 2011
  • NATIONAL BRIEFING | SOUTH; Alabama: Postal Worker Is Charged In Shooting

    A postal employee has been charged with two counts of attempted murder after shots were fired inside the main post office in Montgomery. The worker, Arthur L. Darby Jr., 29, was being held Friday after bail was set at $1 million. No one was injured. NATIONAL BRIEFING | SOUTH...

  • OP-ED CONTRIBUTOR; The Siege of the Freedom Riders

    Atlanta FIFTY years ago today I arrived in Montgomery, Ala., on a Greyhound bus. I was 20 years old and was there as one of the Freedom Riders, a racially mixed group, mostly college students, who were riding buses through the South to test the Supreme Court's recent ban on segregation in waiting rooms and restaurants that served interstate...

  • Making a Stand for the Confederacy, 150 Years Later

    MONTGOMERY, Ala. -- One hundred and fifty years and one day later, the South did it again. Before a cheering crowd of several hundred men and women, some in period costume and others in crisp suits, an amateur actor playing Jefferson Davis was sworn in as president of the Confederacy on the steps of the Alabama Capitol on Saturday, an event framed...

Wikipedia

Montgomery er en amerikansk by og hovedstad i staten Alabama. I 2000 havde byen 201.568 indbyggere. Byen er amtssæde for amtet Montgomery County.

Byen ligger ved Alabama River.

Byen var centrum for de amerikanske borgerrettighedsbevægelsers start. Rosa Parks nægtede i 1955 at rejse sig fra sin plads i bussen for at give plads for en hvid, hvilket førte til boykot af byens kollektive trafik.

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