1. Huntsville, A.K.A. Rocket City, is the site of Redstone Arsenal. They developed many space vehicles. They even made Saturn 5 Rocket System which carried the first astronauts to the moon.
2. Montgomery was the first confederate capital. Jefferson Davis took office as president of the Confederate States of America.
3. Tuskegee Institute was founded by Booker T. Washington in 1881.
4. Martin Luther King, Jr., encouraged black people to form a boycott against riding the bus.
5. The Union won a Civil
War Battle at Mobile Bay on August 5, 1864.
Famous People
Did you know that Booker T. Washington,
Rosa Parks, Helen Keller, and George Washington Carver were born in this
state?
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