Nevertheless, Montgomery has stated courageously and wisely the crisis of the Western world.

The Alabama River has three lock and dams between Montgomery and the Mobile River.

:* Montgomery, Ohio has a celebration with wine, beer, local restaurants ' fare, pastries, games and bands.

The painting, which was inspired by the Montgomery Bus Boycott, has come to represent " the surge of energy among African Americans to organize in their struggle for full equality.

Notable jazz bassists from the 1940s to the 1950s included bassist Jimmy Blanton ( 1918 – 1942 ) whose short tenure in the Duke Ellington Swing band ( cut short by his death from tuberculosis ) introduced new melodic and harmonic solo ideas for the instrument ; bassist Ray Brown ( 1926 – 2002 ), known for backing Beboppers Dizzy Gillespie, Oscar Peterson, Art Tatum and Charlie Parker, and forming the Modern Jazz Quartet ; hard bop bassist Ron Carter ( born 1937 ), who has appeared on 3, 500 albums make him one of the most-recorded bassists in jazz history, including LPs by Thelonious Monk and Wes Montgomery and many Blue Note Records artists ; and Paul Chambers ( 1935 – 1969 ), a member of the Miles Davis Quintet ( including the landmark modal jazz recording Kind of Blue ) and many other 1950s and 1960s rhythm sections, was known for his virtuosic improvisations.

However, Michael Montgomery, in From Ulster to America: The Scotch-Irish Heritage of American English, states " In Ulster in recent years it has sometimes been supposed that it was coined to refer to followers of King William III and brought to America by early Ulster emigrants …, but this derivation is almost certainly incorrect … In America hillbilly was first attested only in 1898, which suggests a later, independent development.

** A United States federal judge rules that SCLC has the lawful right to march to Montgomery, Alabama to petition for ' redress of grievances '.

The city also has several upscale regional shopping centers and is one of the major retail hubs in Montgomery County.

In addition to housing many Alabama government agencies, Montgomery has a large military presence due to Maxwell Air Force Base ; public universities Alabama State University, Troy University ( Montgomery campus ), and Auburn University at Montgomery ; private colleges / universities Faulkner University and Huntingdon College ; high-tech manufacturing, including Hyundai Motor Manufacturing Alabama ; and cultural attractions such as the Alabama Shakespeare Festival and Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts.

In recent years, Montgomery has grown and diversified its economy.

Montgomery has a humid subtropical climate ( Köppen Cfa ), with short, mild winters, warm springs and autumns, and long, hot, humid summers.

Montgomery has long had large metal fabrication and lumber production sectors.

Due to its location along the Alabama River and extensive rail connections, Montgomery has and continues to be a regional distribution hub for a wide range of industries.

Montgomery Zoo, one of only two AZA-accredited zoos in Alabama, has over 500 animals in of barrier-free habitats.

The Symphony has been performing in Montgomery since 1979.

In addition to being the launching point of Hank Williams Sr .’ s career, and the birthplace of Nat King Cole, Clarence Carter, and Tommy Shaw, Montgomery has also seen a few of its rock bands achieve national success in recent years.

Montgomery has many active civic organizations including a number of organizations focused on diversity relations and the city's rich civil rights history.

Montgomery also is home to several private colleges: Faulkner University, which has an enrollment of 3, 500, is a Church of Christ-affiliated school ; Huntingdon College, which has a current student population of 1, 000 and is affiliated with the United Methodist Church ; Virginia College and Amridge University.

Montgomery has one sister city:

Montgomery County lies in a region of well-developed karst topography and has a cave system named Dunbar Cave.

After Gott was killed flying back to Cairo Churchill was persuaded by Brooke, who by this time was Chief of the Imperial General Staff to appoint Montgomery, who had only just been nominated to replace Alexander as commander of the British ground forces for Operation Torch.

Shortly after Bernard Montgomery had been appointed to command II Corps, Alexander was, while still on the beachhead, placed in command of I Corps, and left the beach on the last destroyer on 3 June after ensuring that all British troops had been evacuated.

Alexander was concurrently promoted to the rank of field marshal, though this was backdated to the fall of Rome on 4 June 1944, so that Alexander would once again be senior to Montgomery, who had himself been made a field marshal on 1 September 1944, after the end of the Battle of Normandy.

Parks was charged with a violation of Chapter 6, Section 11 segregation law of the Montgomery City code, although technically she had not taken a white-only seat ; she had been in a colored section.

" Years later, the executive director of the Montgomery YMCA thanked Dees for the case because without it, the center would not have been able to desegregate.

Robert Montgomery and Myrna Loy were then offered the roles, but each turned the script down, though Loy later noted that the final story as filmed bore little resemblance to the script that she and Montgomery had been offered for their perusal.

Hubert had been given the lordship and castle of Montgomery by the king and was encroaching on Llywelyn's lands nearby.

Some of his men had been taken prisoner by the garrison of Montgomery and beheaded, and Llywelyn responded by burning Montgomery, Powys, New Radnor, Hay and Brecon before turning west to capture the castles of Neath and Kidwelly.

She was secretary of the Montgomery NAACP chapter and had recently returned from a meeting at the Highlander Center in Tennessee where nonviolent civil disobedience as a strategy had been discussed.

William Montgomery Watt and Alfred Guillaume claim that stories of the event were true based upon the implausibility of Muslims fabricating a story so unflattering to their prophet: " Muhammad must have publicly recited the satanic verses as part of the Qur ' ān ; it is unthinkable that the story could have been invented by Muslims, or foisted upon them by non-Muslims.

Two ships of the United States Navy have been named after the city, including USS Montgomery ( LCS-8 ).

The championship had previously been played at Paterson Field in Montgomery from 1985 until 2003.

Two major motion pictures have been filmed in Montgomery: The Long Walk Home, set during the Montgomery Bus Boycott, and Big Fish, partially shot at Huntingdon College.

In that latter case, it would have been indirectly named for John Montgomery, a settler in Montgomery County, Tennessee, who founded the city of Clarksville, Tennessee, in that county.

James Montgomery, writing for UWIRE, noted a stylistic change, saying that " While the core sound of the band – honky tonk guitars, mariachi horns and salsa rhythms – remain intact, they have been stripped down to the core, replaced instead with ill Casio beats, rubbery funk and Stax-style horn bleats ".

The next day, an orphaned boy named Matthew Garth ( played as a boy by Mickey Kuhn and as an adult by Montgomery Clift ) who had been part of the wagon train Dunson had left, and who came back from finding a strayed cow to see the ruins of the train wanders into Dunson and Groot's camp, babbling inchoerently.

The border of Oswego and Montgomery has been disputed through the community for many years, as both communities are not quite sure as to where the borders may lie within the community itself.

This occurred in 1880, when Lee Richmond and John Montgomery Ward pitched perfect games within five days of each other, although under somewhat different rules: the front edge of the pitcher's box was only from home base ( the modern release point is about farther away ); walks required eight balls ; and pitchers were obliged to throw side-armed.

* 1956 – American civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr .' s home is bombed in retaliation for the Montgomery Bus Boycott.

The home was owned by Upton Beall, Clerk of the Montgomery County Court.

) Another of the Sherman daughters, Eleanor, was married to Alexander Montgomery Thackara at General Sherman ’ s home in Washington, D. C., on May 5, 1880.

The area is also home of the Wynton M. Blount Cultural Park, a park which contains the Alabama Shakespeare Festival and Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts.

The Wynton M. Blount Cultural Park in east Montgomery is home to the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts.

Montgomery is home of the Montgomery Biscuits baseball team.

Garrett Coliseum was the home of the now-defunct Montgomery Bears indoor football team.

Montgomery is also home to 28 private schools.

The community was located halfway between Montgomery Court House ( modern-day Rockville and the mouth of the Monocacy River, and originally consisted of a tavern, a pair of blacksmiths, a wheelwright, a single store, and a log building which served as both a school and the home of several churches.

Montgomery is also home to Big Honza's Museum of Unnatural History.

Montgomery also is home to the Most Holy Redeemer Catholic School, a pre-K-8 private school.

Montgomery City was the home town of Ray Moore ( comics ), the creator of the comic strip " The Phantom ".

The town is home to Stronghold Soccer Club, which plays its matches at Mount St. John's on the grounds of Montgomery Academy.

Fort Plain is also home to a large number of Amish and now, Montgomery County has one of the largest populations of Amish in the country.

In the spring of 1800, John Schell and his family, consisting of his wife, eight young children and his widowed mother, left their home in Montgomery County and traveled west.

Montgomery is also the home of the Montgomery Little League, a chartered member of Little League Baseball, and is billed as " The Second Oldest Little League In The World ". They were represented in the 1947 Little League World Series, losing to the Lincoln Little League 7-2 and the Brandon Little League 14-2.

Cheltenham Township is a home rule municipality in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, United States.

Mill Grove, the first home in America of painter John James Audubon for which the community of Audubon, Pennsylvania is named, is maintained as a museum and wildlife sanctuary by Montgomery County.

Plymouth Township is a home rule municipality in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, United States.