Visitors get a preview of a new civil rights exhibit in the basement of the Mt. Zion AME Zion Church Memorial Annex in Montgomery, Friday, December 5, 2025 – Photo from WAKA Action 8 News

As part of the 70th anniversary of the Montgomery Bus Boycott, Mount Zion AME Zion Church held a preview of its Memorial Annex, which preserves the site that played an important role in the Civil Rights Movement.

It was 70 years ago in the basement of the church, located on South Holt Street, that Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., was elected president of the Montgomery Improvement Association with the Ministerial Alliance. The people chosen at the meeting led the bus boycott that followed the arrest of Rosa Parks for refusing to give up her seat to a white passenger on a Montgomery city bus. The boycot

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