Montgomery County (Ala.) courthouse and jail photographs, [ca.1956].

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Montgomery County (Ala.) courthouse and jail photographs, [ca.1956].

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Photographs, ca.1956, of the courthouse and jail in Montgomery Co., Ala. Four photographs are of the courthouse, including interior shots of Judge Eugene Carter's criminal courtroom on the east side of the building, and Judge Walter B. Jones civil courtroom on the west side of the building. There are two photographs of the exterior of the building. There are three photographs of the exterior of the jail.

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Alabama Department of Archives and History

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Alabama Department of Archives and History

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Carter, Eugene W., b.1894.

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Montgomery County Circuit Court Judge Eugene W. Carter presided over the 1956 trial of Martin Luther King, Jr., president of the Montgomery Improvement Association, who was indicted for conspiring to boycott. On Dec. 1, 1955, Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her seat on a Montgomery municipal bus to a white person. Protesting the arrest, black citizens of Montgomery boycotted the city's bus system in order to force the bus company and the city to abolish t...

Jones, Walter Burgwyn, 1888-1963

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Walter B. Jones was the son of Alabama governor (1890-1894) and U.S. District Judge, Thomas Goode Jones. Walter Jones was a member of the Alabama House of Representatives (1919-1920) and a circuit judge in Alabama (1920-1935). He was a columnist for the Montgomery Advertiser and a state commander of the Sons of Confederate Veterans. A dissident Democratic elector from Alabama cast one electoral vote for Jones for President of the United States in 1956. From the description of Walter ...