Have you seen the viral video?
A fight between a group of White boaters and a Black co-captain of a riverboat escalated into a melee Saturday when a group of bystanders joined the fray.
“We are unable to present any inciting a riot or racially biased charges at this time,” Albert said during a news conference. But jokes and memes aside, historians have noted that the altercation has once again placed Montgomery at the center of conversations around race. Here’s a look at Montgomery’s storied racial history.In downtown Montgomery, not far from where the brawl took place, a historic marker commemorates the city’s role in the trans-Atlantic slave trade.
Enslaved people would arrive on Montgomery’s riverfront or at the train station where they would be chained together and paraded down Commerce Street. They would later be sold in the city’s slave markets. “If you scratch hard enough at the surface of any of those matters today, you’ll likely find the legacy of slavery lying somewhere underneath.”Montgomery is often called the “Cradle of the Confederacy” because in 1861 it briefly served as the first capital of the Confederate States of America. Eleven states had seceded from the union after Abraham Lincoln was elected president of the US in 1860.
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