Montgomery County, Alabama (AL), United States, North America
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Montgomery
, city (1990 pop. 187,106), Ala. and
Montgomery co., E central Ala. Near the head of navigation on the
Alabama R. just below the confluence of the Coosa and Tallapoosa
rivers, and in the rich Black Belt. It is an important market center
for lumber and agr. goods, esp. livestock and dairy prods. Mfg.
includes commercial fertilizer, furniture, air conditioning and heating
units, automotive wiring, food items, and paper. Montgomery became the
capital of Ala. in 1847 and boomed as a river port and cotton market.
The city has been called the “Cradle of the Confederacy.” In the
capitol bldg. (erected 1857) the convention met (Feb. 1861) that formed
the Confederate States of America. Jefferson Davis was
inaugurated president on the capitol steps, and the city served as the
Confederate capital until the seat was moved to Richmond in May 1861.
The city was occupied by Federal troops in the spring of 1865. During
the civil rights movement in the 1950s and 1960s, Montgomery was marked
by Afr.-Amer. demonstrations, led by Martin Luther King, Jr., who was a
minister in Montgomery in the mid-1950s. In Dec. 1955, Afr.-Americans
organized a nonviolent boycott of the segregated public bus system; by
the following year a desegregation edict regarding public
transportation was issued. Racial unrest ensued here in the 1960s. The
city is the seat of Ala. State Univ., Auburn Univ. at Montgomery,
Huntingdon Col., Troy State Univ., Faulkner Univ., 2 technical schools,
and Southern Christian Univ. Maxwell Air Force Base, home of Air Univ.,
the center of professional military education for the U.S. Air Force,
adjoins the city on the NW. In addition to the historic state capitol,
points of interest in Montgomery include the “1st White House of the
Confederacy” (built c.1825), preserved as a Confederate mus.; a
planetarium; a mus. of fine arts; the state archives and history mus.;
a zoo; the Ala. Shakespeare festival and many antebellum homes and
bldgs. Inc. 1819.
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Ala. and
Montgomery co., E central Ala. Near the head of navigation on the
Alabama R. just below the confluence of the Coosa and Tallapoosa
rivers, and in the rich Black Belt. It is an important market center
for lumber and agr. goods, esp. livestock and dairy prods. Mfg.
includes commercial fertilizer, furniture, air conditioning and heating
units, automotive wiring, food items, and paper. Montgomery became the
capital of Ala. in 1847 and boomed as a river port and cotton market.
The city has been called the “Cradle of the Confederacy.” In the
capitol bldg. (erected 1857) the convention met (Feb. 1861) that formed
the Confederate States of America. Jefferson Davis was
inaugurated president on the capitol steps, and the city served as the
Confederate capital until the seat was moved to Richmond in May 1861.
The city was occupied by Federal troops in the spring of 1865. During
the civil rights movement in the 1950s and 1960s, Montgomery was marked
by Afr.-Amer. demonstrations, led by Martin Luther King, Jr., who was a
minister in Montgomery in the mid-1950s. In Dec. 1955, Afr.-Americans
organized a nonviolent boycott of the segregated public bus system; by
the following year a desegregation edict regarding public
transportation was issued. Racial unrest ensued here in the 1960s. The
city is the seat of Ala. State Univ., Auburn Univ. at Montgomery,
Huntingdon Col., Troy State Univ., Faulkner Univ., 2 technical schools,
and Southern Christian Univ. Maxwell Air Force Base, home of Air Univ.,
the center of professional military education for the U.S. Air Force,
adjoins the city on the NW. In addition to the historic state capitol,
points of interest in Montgomery include the “1st White House of the
Confederacy” (built c.1825), preserved as a Confederate mus.; a
planetarium; a mus. of fine arts; the state archives and history mus.;
a zoo; the Ala. Shakespeare festival and many antebellum homes and
bldgs. Inc. 1819.
