The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and other boycott leaders ... its hallways filled with the bleeding and injured after Alabama state troopers attacked civil rights marchers on the Edmund Pettus Bridge ...

Horace William King, Jr.’s spirit of fierce love, strength, kindness, and mercy left his body on April 14, 2025, but it lives on in the lives of those he leaves behind: his wife, Carolyn ...

Born a slave on a South Carolina plantation in 1807, Horace King became one of the most important ... In 1839, when the Eufaula Bridge was completed in Alabama, King’s reputation as one of the premier ...

Horace King, a former slave ... used until 1924 when it was razed and replaced with the McDowell Bridge, according to the Alabama Department of Archives and History. “Apparently, from the ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (WSFA) - Another 24 road and bridge projects across Alabama have been selected to share more than $40 million in state transportation funding. The money is being made available ...

The U.S. is set to mark Martin Luther King Jr. Day, the federal holiday set aside to honor the life of the civil rights icon. But in Alabama and Mississippi, Monday is also Robert E. Lee Day in ...

Guide to 20 of the Best Things to do in LaGrange, GA Welcome to LaGrange, Georgia—a charming Southern town brimming with history, culture, and natural beauty. Whether you’re planning a romantic ...

The first bridges in both towns were built by Horace King, the master builder of the covered bridge. April 16 ... weren’t many able-bodied men to resist a Union attack from the Alabama side of the ...

Most corners of the country harbor old or erroneous markers of some kind. An NPR investigation examines the proliferation of Confederate markers and a century-long effort to recast the Civil War.

He personally enslaved nine people according to Alabama's 1860 census. And that bridge allegedly built by the company he organized was actually designed, managed and built by a slave named Horace King ...