#Alabama

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Rosa Parks Rosa Parks was an NAACP secretary in Montgomery, Alabama, whose December 1, 1955 arrest for refusing to give up her bus seat to a white passenger triggered the Montgomery Bus Boycott and launched the organized civil rights movement of the 1950s-1960s - though her action was a strategic NAACP decision rather than a spontaneous individual act.
William Bradford Huie Writer who in 1951 pressed the CIA on a 50,000 dollar bribe to French Communists and in 1968 bought James Earl Ray's story through his lawyers, paying Hanes and Foreman shares a court found irregular.

Ignite Fueling Innovation Huntsville, Alabama service-disabled veteran-owned defense contractor, formed 2001 as Alatec, Inc., with about $197 million in federal obligations since fiscal 2008 and registered agent of the Alabama corporation The Sol Foundation from 2022 to 2023.
Southern Poverty Law Center Montgomery, Alabama nonprofit founded in 1971 by Morris Dees and Joseph Levin Jr. that classifies hate and extremist groups; it fired its co-founder Dees in 2019.

2025 Athens High School Terrorism Case Limestone County grand jury indictment of Carson Albert Butler in 2025 for terrorism, attempted murder and conspiracy, alleging conspiracy with 764, Maniac Murder Cult and No Lives Matter to target Athens High School students and staff.
Montgomery Bus Boycott The Montgomery Bus Boycott was the 381-day campaign (December 5, 1955 - December 21, 1956) in which the Black community of Montgomery, Alabama, boycotted the city's segregated bus system following Rosa Parks' arrest, launched Martin Luther King Jr. to national prominence, and ended when the Supreme Court ruled bus segregation unconstitutional.