Dexter Avenue is a famous street in Montgomery.  This plaque commemorates the inaugural parade for Jefferson Davis, the first president of the Confederacy.

In December of 1954, Rosa Parks boarded a city bus on Dexter Avenue.  An African-American, Mrs. Parks obeyed the law and took an empty seat toward the back of the bus.  It was the Christmas shopping season and the bus was crowded.

The law in Montgomery required a black person to give up his or her seat if a white wanted it.

Slaves were sold at auction at Court Square prior to the Civil War and Emancipation.

This water fountain at Court Square is topped by a statue of Hebe, the Goddess of Youth.  The state capitol, at the other end of Dexter Avenue, is visible to the left of the fountain.  The Confederate telegram that ordered the firing on Fort Sumter in South Carolina, the event that started the Civil War, was sent from Court Square.

Rosa Park's bus filled with passengers.  When a white man demanded to have her seat, as the law allowed, Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat.