Montgomery, AL....."birthplace of Civil Rights" and the first Capitol of the Confederacy.  Martin Luther King Jr moved from Atlanta to become pastor of the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church from 1954 through 1960.  In 1955 Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her seat on a bus which launched the Montgomery bus boycott which lasted 18 months until the Supreme Court struck down laws segregating public transportation. King led the boycott and organized the Southern Leadership Conference while in Montgomery.

Alabama State Capitol

First White House of the Confederacy

The Civil Rights Memorial Center is sponsored by the Southern Poverty Law Center, a non-profit that combats hate, intolerance and discrimination through education and litigation.

Dexter Avenue Parsonage where the King family lived

Park located by the Rosa Parks bus stop

Court Square Fountain built on the site of slave trading

Home of F Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald

Attended the Montgomery Symphony season opening concert

Off to Florida Panhandle beaches.....