Montgomery, Alabama is a city that doesn't hide from its difficult past
A trip to the first capital of the Confederacy provides a walk through Civil Rights history
Montgomery, Alabama
While the reason I came to the current capital city of the state of Alabama, as well as the first capital city of the Confederacy, is to cover a college football game, it would be impossible to be in this historic city and not be exposed to its difficult past and its emergence as the birthplace of the civil rights movement in this country.
From the window of my hotel room in downtown Montgomery I can see the Alabama River where steamships carrying slaves regularly arrived in Montgomery right up to the start of the Civil War.