The Confederate Monument on the grounds of the Alabama State Capitol Building in Montgomery, Ala., on Confederate Memorial Day Monday April 27, 2020. The tradition to celebrate the holiday ...

Montgomery is a journey in contrasts. The Alabama capital is both a proud epicenter of the mid-20th-century civil rights movement and a landscape curiously steeped in Confederate memory.

Montgomery, the capital city of Alabama, is home to numerous historic ... It served as the first Confederate Capitol during the Civil War and was also the site of Martin Luther King Jr.’s ...

In the 1950s, the city of Montgomery adopted a flag with ... the flag is a reference to the uniforms of Confederate soldiers. The red is for Alabama. The blue was to represent unity, as Union ...

Though Davis represented Mississippi in the U.S. Senate, his connection to Alabama runs deep. The Confederate Congress, which met in Montgomery, unanimously chose him to serve as provisional ...

Each April, Alabama observes Confederate Memorial Day, a state holiday that honors soldiers who fought for the Confederacy during the Civil War. The day remains a point of reflection and debate as ...