This article describes a suit filed in federal court to protest a Montgomery city ordinance requiring segregated parks and recreation facilities. The eight African Americans, represented by attorney Solomon S. Seay, Jr., ask that the ordinance be...
"To Jean Baptiste LeMoyne, Sieur de Bienville, native of Montreal, Canada, naval officer of France, governor of Louisiana, and founder of first capital, Mobile, 1711. Born 1860. Died 1768. Erected by the Colonial Dames of Alabama, in everlasting...
"Bienville Square was named for Jean Baptiste LeMoyne, Sieur de Bienville, who founded the city at its present site. In the square is a monument to his memory erected by the Colonial Dames in 1906, in the form of an immense granite cross. The...
"Big Spring International Park, located in the heart of Huntsville's downtown business district next to the County Courthouse and City Hall, is the site where John Hunt founded the city in 1805. The park, covering several city blocks, contains...