{"id":5330,"date":"2016-04-22T13:43:53","date_gmt":"2016-04-22T19:13:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/studentstories.soe.umich.edu\/?page_id=5330"},"modified":"2025-09-10T18:50:47","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T18:50:47","slug":"mongomery-al","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.marsal.umich.edu\/studentstories\/past-trips\/hbcu-trip-2016\/hbcu-sites\/mongomery-al\/","title":{"rendered":"Montgomery, AL"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The poignant drive from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, is now designated as a National Historic Trail and takes us past the Lowndes Interpretive Center in White Hall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-default\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.marsal.umich.edu\/studentstories\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30\/2016\/04\/20160518_120740-1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.marsal.umich.edu\/studentstories\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30\/2016\/04\/20160518_120740-1.jpg\" alt=\"20160518_120740\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Upon arriving in Montgomery, we meet with colleagues at Alabama State University to learn about hot topics on campus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-default\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.marsal.umich.edu\/studentstories\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30\/2016\/04\/20160518_143103.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.marsal.umich.edu\/studentstories\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30\/2016\/04\/20160518_143103.jpg\" alt=\"20160518_143103\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We also receive a first-hand history lesson from Dr. Valda Montgomery, who can recall as a child when her parents sheltered Freedom Riders in their home &#8230; two doors down from the residence of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.&nbsp; She recommended we drive by the former King home on our way to the State Capitol to see the proximity of these buildings to one another.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-default\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.marsal.umich.edu\/studentstories\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30\/2016\/04\/20160518_171114-1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.marsal.umich.edu\/studentstories\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30\/2016\/04\/20160518_171114-1.jpg\" alt=\"20160518_171114\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When we arrive, who else do we discover than Dr. Montgomery sitting with her mother on the front porch swing.&nbsp; The group gets to share time with this brave lady who placed her family in very real danger in the struggle for social justice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-default\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.marsal.umich.edu\/studentstories\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30\/2016\/04\/20160518_170356.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.marsal.umich.edu\/studentstories\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30\/2016\/04\/20160518_170356.jpg\" alt=\"20160518_170356\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The poignant drive from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, is now designated as a National Historic Trail and takes us past<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5507,"parent":5309,"menu_order":6,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"templates\/page-sidebar-right.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5330","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fimg_url":"https:\/\/sites.marsal.umich.edu\/studentstories\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2016\/04\/20160518_170703-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.marsal.umich.edu\/studentstories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.marsal.umich.edu\/studentstories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.marsal.umich.edu\/studentstories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.marsal.umich.edu\/studentstories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.marsal.umich.edu\/studentstories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5330"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.marsal.umich.edu\/studentstories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5330\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7286,"href":"https:\/\/sites.marsal.umich.edu\/studentstories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5330\/revisions\/7286"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.marsal.umich.edu\/studentstories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5309"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.marsal.umich.edu\/studentstories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.marsal.umich.edu\/studentstories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}