February is Black history Month.
This commemoration recognizes the long history of Blacks in America and their contributions to society as well as the struggle for equality that continues to this day.

Special Black History guided tours
February 3rd, 10th, 17th, & 24th.
In honor of Black Heritage month, Old Alabama Town is offering special guided tours featuring the original slave quarters, the shotgun house, the church, and the one-room school every Thursday in February.

Tour Times
10:30 am and 1 pm.
Admission:
Adults - $4.00, students - $2.00.

A special Black History presentation is available for groups of 15 or more.

Admission:
Adults - $7.00; students - $4.00.

For reservations and information, call 334-240-4517.

Presentation/Lecture on Civil Rights Activist, Juliette Morgan
March 2, 2005 - 10 am Admission is FREE
At Old Alabama Town Reception Center, 301 Columbus Street

Join us at Old Alabama Town for a Morning Coffee with Mary Stanton. She will speak on the life of Juliette Morgan, Civil Rights Activist from Montgomery, Alabama. “Juliette Morgan’s privileged upbringing in Montgomery seemed unlikely to yield a Civil Rights Activist. Yet inspired by Mahatma Gandhi, and troubled by the injustice around her, that is precisely what she became, ”said Mary Stanton. Sixteen years before Montgomery’s famous bus boycott gained national attention, Morgan was writing letters to the editor of the Montgomery Advertiser railing against the abuses she witnessed. Some years later she moved beyond letter writing and began an active protest one morning on her way to work. Morgan launched a one-woman, non-violent protest against the discriminatory practices of Montgomery’s city bus drivers. In 1955 her stand against segregation was radical, especially for a white woman. Morgan maintained that many whites like herself opposed segregation but were fearful of speaking out. Morgan’s personal campaign against injustice caused her to become estranged from friends, former students and colleagues, neighbors and even her mother. Depression finally overwhelmed her and on July 16, 1957, Juliette Morgan ended her life with an overdose of sleeping pills. Those who knew her understood her cause. Morgan, like many blacks and whites who fought for civil rights, took seriously the ethic of “liberty and justice for all.”

Mary Stanton is the author of:
From Selma to Sorrow: The Life and Death of Viola Liuzzo and
Freedom Walk: Mississippi or Bust.