Well, we've just passed another anniversary of the Selma to Montgomery march — the 47th (not the 49th, as Rolling Stone might have us believe). So perhaps it's time for some Civil Rights trivia related to it. The building at right is connected to what I like to refer to as the deep history of the march. What is it, where is it, and how's it connected to the march?
So I know that it isn't the Dallas County Courthouse or the Alabama Govenor's mansion. Nor is it the Edmund Pettus homestead. I'm stumped.
You're onto something with the courthouse, Bob.
Not sure it's a courthouse, but I'm pretty sure it's where Jeff Davis was inaugurated as the President of the CSA.
Calvin,
It looks very much like the Alabama capitol building, which is where Davis was inaugurated. But this is a somewhat smaller building; it is close to Montgomery.
Great property book, btw. Very nicely done. I've been reading it over the last few evenings.
I'm guessing this is the courthouse in Marion. There was a march to this building during which a black man was killed. This event preceded the Montgomery to Selma march.
*Selma to Montgomery march I meant.
You're exactly right, Brando. It's the courthouse at Marion (county seat of Perry County). There was a march there, which was stopped at the courthouse. Some of the marchers fled, including Jimmie Lee Jackson and his mother, who ran into a nearby restaurant, Mack's Place. During a struggle with an officer who'd followed him into Mack's Place, Mr. Jackson was shot. He died about a week later. There is some question about whether he received adequate medical care. Apparently some people think that his injuries should not have resulted in his death.
That set off the first Selma to Montgomery march. In 2010 the officer pled guilty to second degree manslaughter, as I recall.
You may recall that Marion was also the site of a very, very difficult library trivia question a while back:
http://www.thefacultylounge.org/2011/12/name-that-library-building.html
And also that the cemetery in Marion has a monument to the faithful slave, Harry, who perished in a fire at Howard College:
http://www.thefacultylounge.org/2011/02/faithful-slave-monument.html