by Susan | Nov 24, 2025 | Monuments
On Dec. 1, 2020, exactly 65 years after Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus, the city and Air Force leadership unveiled a monument to her memory on Maxwell AFB. Rosa Parks worked as a seamstress at Maxwell’s on-base hotel in 1941. Her...
by Susan | Mar 11, 2024 | Monuments
The Violata Pax (Wounded Peace) Dove symbolizes beauty and peace, sorrow and tragedy. Where you stand determines what you see. The sculpture was originally commissioned as part of a post-earthquake renovation project for the Basilica of Saint Francis of Assisi in...
by Susan | Mar 2, 2020 | Monuments
“When your children shall ask you in time to come, saying, what mean these twelve stones, then you shall tell them how you made it over.” Joshua 4: 21-22 The verse inscribed on this stone monument near the Edmund Pettus Bridge refers the Israelites...
by Susan | Sep 2, 2019 | Monuments
Established on January 12, 2017, one of President Obama’s last acts as president, Freedom Riders National Monument shares stories of people and places that gained national attention in the fight against the injustices of Jim Crow laws and eventually led to...
by Susan | Apr 10, 2017 | Monuments
Once known as West Park, Kelly Ingram sits on a 4-acre lot in the Birmingham Civil Rights District, just across the street from both the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute and the 16th Street Baptist Church. The Park oftentimes served as a gathering place for...
