The weather is miserable, looks like rain, or worse, so we are going get done what we can and visit Montgomery.
We started out at the Visitors Centre, then took the trolley tour (cost us a dollar between us) which gave us an overview of the places in Montgomery centre.
Since it was still dry we decided to take the car to the Old Alabama Town district to look at the old houses, but because access was difficult decided against paying the fee. We then went to the city square and saw where Rosa Parks waited for the bus on that fateful day. The square is also the site of the telegraph office where the order went out to attack Fort Sumter, which is officially the start of the Civil War. This also gave us a view up Dexter Ave to the Capitol. Our next stop was the Capitol itself, this was very interesting and we were able to see where the two houses met and where President Jefferson Davies read the Oath of Office for the Confederacy.
Following this we joined a tour of the Dexter King Memorial Baptist Church, this is the church that Maritn Luther King was the Pastor of from 1954 to 1960, which included the time of the Bus Boycott, for which he was a central character. While we visited the church we were allowed to walk around inside, I even stood in the pulpit where Martin Luther king delivered his Sunday sermon every week from 1954 to 1960.
This had been a packed and quite emotional day, seeing places we had only seen on TV or on films or in history books
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