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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1JQ2_capitol-heights-elementary-school_Montgomery-AL.html
While Capitol Heights was a new town, city leaders, including founder and first mayor J. S. Pinckard, donated land for an elementary school. The community partnered with the Montgomery County Board of Education to build the Capitol Heights Element…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1JPU_home-of-dr-e-d-nixon-sr_Montgomery-AL.html
Nationally recognized as a pioneer of the modern day Civil Rights Movement, Edgar D. Nixon, Sr., posted bail for segregation law violator Rosa Parks. In her defense, Nixon gathered the support of Montgomery blacks in implementing the successful 19…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1JO2_general-charles-graham-boyd_Montgomery-AL.html
This historical marker is given in honor of General Charles Graham Boyd and the other brave Americans, living and dead, who as prisoners of war, at times enduring the most brutal treatment imaginable, loved their country and kept the faith when …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1J6E_the-selma-to-montgomery-voting-rights-march_Montgomery-AL.html
Ended at the foot of the Capitol steps
on March 25, 1965
Here Dr. King addressed 25,000 people
"I believe this march will go down
as one of the greatest struggles
for freedom and dignity
in the nation's history."
Martin Luther King, Jr.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1J6B_fred-david-gray_Montgomery-AL.html
Side 1
Born in 1930 in Montgomery, Gray was among the foremost civil rights attorneys of the 20th century. Forced by segregation to leave Alabama to attend law school, he vowed to return and "destroy everything segregated I could find." Over a si…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1HZT_wright-brothers-flying-school_Montgomery-AL.html
On this site in 1910
stood the hanger
of the
Flying School of the
first men to fly:
The Wright Brothers
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1HZS_lister-hill-center_Montgomery-AL.html
This facility is dedicated to the memory of Senator Lister Hill who faithfully served his state and the nation for forty-five years as a member of the House of Representatives and the United States Senate. An Infantry Officer during World War I, S…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1HZR_the-air-corps-tactical-school_Montgomery-AL.html
Established here in 1931, was the birthplace and nurturing ground of American air doctrine. In the ferment of a decade of thought and debate, the Air Corps Tactical School gave rise to concepts for the strategic and operational deployment of U.S. …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1HD6_montgomerys-panel-project_Montgomery-AL.html
Montgomery's Cotton Slide
The history of Montgomery Panel Project is place on top of the remains of Montgomery's Cotton Slide. The Cotton Slide was used to transport heavy cotton bales from the streets above to the waiting steamboats below.
Befo…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1FWZ_9th-infantry-division-the-old-reliables_Montgomery-AL.html
The 9th Division was organized on 18 July 1918 at Camp Sheridan for service in World War I. When the War ended, 11 November 1918, deployment of the Division to France was canceled and it was demobilized on 15 February 1919. Reactivated on 1 August…