Montgomery, capital of Alabama, lies in the centre of the state on the east bank of the Alabama River. It can be said to be the birthplace of the Civil Rights Movement, and in the Baptist church in Dexter Avenue the first activities gathered around Martin Luther King. Nearby is the Civil Rights Memorial in memory of a man who gave his life for
the movement. Old Alabama Town with its 19th C houses preserves something of the atmosphere of old Montgomery, once an important cotton market. Other places of interest are the Capitol and the White House, the oldest in the Confederate states. On the eastern outskirts of the town are the Museum of Fine Arts and the renowned Alabama Shakespeare Festival Theater. 43 mi. east of Montgomery is Tuskegee University, which originated as a college for the education of blacks founded by the former negro slave Booker T. Washington in 1881.
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