Cycling the Underground Railroad

  DAY 6: MONTGOMERY, ALABAMA  As I type this blog, there are tornado warnings all throughout Alabama, including here in Montgomery.  Fortunately, I am dry in my hotel room (instead of camping in a tent).  Hotel management will inform me if I need to go hide out in the bathroom (seriously!).   Montgomery became the center of the Southern domestic slave trade when the railroad was completed from Mobile. Today, there was a little bit of rain, but not enough to put a damper on my day exploring the history of this fascinating city.  Jefferson Davis was installed as President of the Confederacy in Montgomery.  The order to attack Fort Sumner to start the Civil War came from here.  Rosa Parks and the year-long city bus boycott (the start of the modern Civil Rights Movement), the Freedom Riders, and the Selma to Montgomery March for Voting Rights all centered in this city.  It also became one of the largest domestic slave markets in the South....