The Montgomery woman who has started running a tour bus around Downtown Montgomery also went before the City Council to complain about plans for a statue of a Revolutionary War General for whom the city is named.
Michelle Browder said correctly, that General Richard Montgomery was a slave owner. He died in 1775...45 years before Alabama was a state!
But plans for the statue are apparently moving forward.
It will be installed on a raised platform in the center of the small triangle park at the foot of Montgomery's Dexter avenue, near the 1885 fountain.
As also included in the city's park plan, a statue of Rosa Parks will be installed at the edge of the park, very close to the place where she stepped onto a city bus and into International history.
The multi-sided lions' head monument in the park will remain, and it has an interesting story itself, dating to 1907.
I posted in May about the park/statue dispute. See that posting HERE.
Michelle Browder said correctly, that General Richard Montgomery was a slave owner. He died in 1775...45 years before Alabama was a state!
But plans for the statue are apparently moving forward.
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| The platform for Gen. Montgomery |
It will be installed on a raised platform in the center of the small triangle park at the foot of Montgomery's Dexter avenue, near the 1885 fountain.
As also included in the city's park plan, a statue of Rosa Parks will be installed at the edge of the park, very close to the place where she stepped onto a city bus and into International history.
I posted in May about the park/statue dispute. See that posting HERE.
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