5.1K views · 733 reactions | Montgomery, Alabama’s first black mayor, Steven Reed, took office today. This historic moment for the city, which served as the first capital of the pro-slavery Confederacy, comes after its long, violent history of lynchings & systemic racism toward African Americans. | POLITICO | Facebook

HISTORIC ALABAMA CEMETERIES: Alabama is home to many historic cemeteries with famous Alabamians buried there. Check out these cemeteries who is buried there 👇 🪦Maple Hill Cemetery 👤Five former Alabama governors: Thomas Bibb, Clement Comer Clay, Reuben Chapman, Robert Patton David Lewis 📍Huntsville 🪦Old Live Oak Cemetery 👤Benjamin Sterling Turner, a formerly enslaved African-American who served as U.S. Representative for Alabama during the Reconstruction era 📍Selma 🪦Oak Hill Cemetery 👤Ja

Bloody Sunday refers to a pivotal event in the civil rights movement that took place on March 7, 1965, in Selma, Alabama. John Lewis, who was a young activist at the time and later became a U.S. Congressman, played a key role in leading a peaceful march for voting rights. That day, about 600 protesters, including Lewis and other leaders from the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), attempted to march from Selma to Montgomery to