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Montgomery Improvement Association president, Montgomery bus boycott co-organizer [27] Claudette Colvin: Pioneer of the civil rights movement [28] Morris Dees: Southern Poverty Law Center founder [29] Mahala Ashley Dickerson: First black female attorney in Alabama [30] Fred Gray: Attorney, founding member of the Montgomery Improvement ...
The following is a list of people executed by the U.S. state of Alabama since capital punishment was resumed in the United States in 1976. All of the 79 people (78 men and 1 woman) have been executed at the Holman Correctional Facility, near Atmore, Alabama. All executions between December 2002 and 2023 were conducted by lethal injection.
Most deaths occurred in rural areas during events like the Elaine race riot in Arkansas, where an estimated 100 to 240 blacks and 5 whites were killed. Other major events of Red Summer were the Chicago race riot and Washington D.C. Race Riot , which caused 38 and 39 deaths, respectively.
A lynching is an extrajudicial killing by a mob, and is not limited to deaths by hanging. Pages in category "Lynching deaths in Alabama" The following 22 pages are in this category, out of 22 total.
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The Civil Rights Memorial is an American memorial in Montgomery, Alabama, created by Maya Lin. The names of 41 people are inscribed on the granite fountain as martyrs who were killed in the civil rights movement. [1] The memorial is sponsored by the Southern Poverty Law Center. [2]
Hank Williams's funeral, recorded as the largest funeral in Montgomery's history and one of the largest in the entire Southern United States, had a line two and a half city blocks long between the Montgomery City Auditorium and the Oakwood Cemetery Annex, with three trucks required to handle the wreaths that were placed at the Annex, and (according to R. L. Lampley and Marvin Stanley ...
The killing of Greg Gunn occurred on the morning of February 25, 2016, in Montgomery, Alabama.Gunn, a 58-year-old African-American man, [1] was shot and killed near his home after fleeing from a stop-and-frisk initiated by Aaron Cody Smith, a white police officer.