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Leon Vandiver Oral History Recording

Oral interview of Leon Vandiver recorded by Keith S. Hebert in December 2016 for the Montgomery County Historical Society as part of their Alabama Bicentennial commemorations. The interview was conducted at Vandiver's home in Montgomery, Alabama. To…

Tags: African American, Alabama, Alabama State University, black, Booker T. Washington High School, church, community, Education, Food, Montgomery, segregation, Trenholm Court

Alabama Department of Archives and History

Tags: Archives, Montgomery, Montgomery County, Museum

1955/2000s: Rosa Parks bus

This is the bus Rosa Parks was riding when she was arrested for refusing to give up her seat to a white man in Montgomery, Alabama on December 1, 1955. At the time, Jim Crow laws in Alabama demanded that seating on buses be racially segregated. Ms.…

Tags: American history, buses, Civil Rights Movement, Henry Ford Museum, Montgomery, public transportation, Rosa Parks, Transportation