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Montgomery city, Alabama – Racial and ethnic composition Note: the US Census treats Hispanic/Latino as an ethnic category. This table excludes Latinos from the racial categories and assigns them to a separate category. Hispanics/Latinos may be of any race. Race / Ethnicity (NH = Non-Hispanic) Pop 2000 [55] Pop 2010 [56] Pop 2020 [57] % 2000 % ...
1978 - Montgomery Genealogical Society established. [22] 1980 - Population: 177,857. 1984 - Masjid Qasim Bilal El-Amin established. [23] [24] 1985 - Alabama Shakespeare Festival active. 1986 - Montgomery Area Food Bank established. [25] [26] 1989 - Civil Rights Memorial dedicated. 1990 - Population: 187,106. 1992 - Montgomery County Historical ...
Montgomery in the Good War: Portrait of a Southern City, 1939–1946 (U of Alabama Press, 2000). Rogers, William Warren. Confederate Home Front: Montgomery During the Civil War (University of Alabama Press, 2001). Williams, Clanton W. "Early Ante-Bellum Montgomery: A Black-Belt Constituency." Journal of Southern History 7.4 (1941): 495-525.
Steven L. Reed [2] was born in Montgomery, Alabama, to Joe and Mollie Reed (née Perry) as one of three children. His father, Joe, was one of the first class of elected members of the Montgomery City Council from 1975 to 1999. Reed earned a Bachelor of Arts from Morehouse College and a Master of Business Administration from Vanderbilt University.
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 ...
[4]: 9 It was in Montgomery, Alabama, where Robinson joined the Women's Political Council, which Mary Fair Burks had founded three years earlier. The WPC was an organization dedicated to inspiring African Americans to rise above the level of mediocrity that they had been conditioned to accept, to fight juvenile delinquency, increase voter registration in the African American community, and to ...
Juliette Hampton Morgan (February 21, 1914 – July 16, 1957) was a librarian and civil rights activist in Montgomery, Alabama.The only daughter from a well-to-do white family, Morgan was an early member of the community that pushed for integration.
Montgomery County was established by dividing Monroe County on December 6, 1816, by the Mississippi Territorial Legislature. [1] It is named for Lemuel P. Montgomery, a young U.S. Army officer killed at the Battle of Horseshoe Bend, the final battle of the Creek Indian war, which was waged concurrently with the War of 1812.