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| AL |
abbreviation of "Alabama," a southeastern U.S. state located between Georgia and Mississippi. |
| Appalachian Mountains |
mountain system in eastern North America extending from southeastern Canada to central Alabama in the United States; Appalachians. |
| Bloody Sunday |
March 7, 1965, the day on which American civil rights activists, led by John Lewis and others, marched onto the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama and were beaten and tear-gassed by waiting police officers and deputies on the other side. |
| Creek |
a member of the strong confederacy of Indian tribes formed from groups previously in Alabama and Georgia, and now mostly in Oklahoma. [1/2 definitions] |
| Deep South |
the southeastern U.S. region, esp. Georgia, South Carolina, Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana, considered most typically Southern. |
| John Lewis |
American civil rights activist and U.S. Congress member from Georgia, who led, among other marches and demonstrations, the march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama in 1965, which galvanized the nation and quickened the passage of the Voting Rights Act (b. 1940--d. 2020). |
| Mississippi |
a U.S. state on the Gulf of Mexico between Alabama and Louisiana. (abbr.: MS) [1/2 definitions] |
| Montgomery |
the capital of Alabama. |
| MS1 |
abbreviation of "Mississippi," a U.S. state on the Gulf of Mexico between Alabama and Louisiana. |
| Rosa Parks |
U.S. civil rights activist and icon, whose arrest in 1955 in Montgomery, Alabama, for refusing to obey segregation laws on a municipal bus inspired a wave of civil rights activism; born Rosa Louise McCauley (b.1913--d.2005). |
| Tennessee |
a southeastern U.S. state between Kentucky and Alabama. (abbr.: TN) |
| TN |
abbreviation of "Tennessee," a southeastern U.S. state between Kentucky and Alabama. |
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