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 has been the home of Alabama State University, a historically black university, since the Lincoln Normal University for Teachers relocated from Marion in 1887.

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.

Montgomery made a great effort to appear before troops as often as possible, frequently visiting various units and making himself known to the men, often arranging for cigarettes to be distributed.

Gen. Montgomery insisted priority be given to his 21st Army Group's attack being made in the north, while Gens.

He opened the gates for a generation of labor historians, such as David Montgomery and Herbert Gutman, who made similar studies of the American working classes.

In 1973 the number theorist Hugh Montgomery was visiting the Institute for Advanced Study and had just made his pair correlation conjecture concerning the distribution of the zeros of the Riemann zeta function.

In 1948, Hawks made Red River, an epic western reminiscent of Mutiny on the Bounty starring John Wayne and Montgomery Clift in his first film.

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.

In an attempt to clarify the issue, American writer Charles Montgomery Skinner noted in 1898 that the Tom Collins made its way to the " American Bars " in England, France, and Germany, where the American invention stimulated curiosity in Europe and served as a reflection of American art.

In 1883, the American John J. Montgomery made a controlled flight in a glider.

Thomas Montgomery made sure that Montgomery received a good education ; he learned French, Latin, and rhetoric, and attended a school outside of Belfast.

The success in Montgomery made its leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. a nationally known figure.

Both were made with a view to winning support for the British war effort, especially in the U. S. Niven's Film Unit work included a small part in the deception operation that used minor actor M. E. Clifton James to impersonate Field Marshal Montgomery.

The system made Montgomery one of the first cities to " depopulate " its residential areas at the city center through transit-facilitated suburban development.

Montgomery County's first courthouse was ordered on June 28, 1823, to be made " of good hewed logs ... to be twenty-six feet long ; two stories high, lower story nine feet from floor to joist ; upper to be seven feet to roof ".

When Henry III came of age in 1227 de Burgh was made lord of Montgomery Castle in the Welsh Marches and Earl of Kent.

* Section 1 — That all that part of the county of Butler lying and being within the first and second fractional townships in the fifth range, and adjoining the south line of Montgomery County, shall be and the same is hereby attached to and made part of the county of Warren.

The county was made from parts of Fleming, Montgomery, and Mason County, Kentucky.

Jackson made the fort his headquarters during the War of 1812, and the newly created Montgomery County held its courts there.

The book was later made into the movie " A Place in the Sun " starring Montgomery Clift and Elizabeth Taylor.

Designed by several women from Montgomery, final touches were made by Francis Corra of that city.

It was made into a film in 1937 with Robert Montgomery, and again in 1964 with Albert Finney.

Though admitting a mistake had been made, Bradley placed the blame on General Montgomery for moving the Commonwealth troops too slowly, though the latter were in direct contact with a large number of SS Panzer, Fallschirmjaeger, and other elite German forces.

Three Hollywood movies have been made of Foster's life: Harmony Lane ( 1935 ) with Douglass Montgomery, Swanee River ( 1939 ) with Don Ameche, and I Dream of Jeanie ( 1952 ), with Bill Shirley.

Baldwin was nervous about the trip but he made it, interviewing people in Charlotte, Atlanta ( where he met Martin Luther King ), and Montgomery, Alabama.