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Stuck in the corner in the basement is Rev. King's podium. It was awfully strange to see it just stuck in a corner. I didn't realize it was anything special until I asked one of the two women working here whether the podium upstairs was King's, and she pointed this out. In this basement, where I stood to take this photo, King, Rosa Parks, and many others organized the Montgomery bus boycot.
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And another two blocks away (behind the Capitol) was this very odd piece of history, the First White House of the Confederacy. This was the residence of Jefferson Davis. Most official business was conducted in the Alabama Capitol building. Originally it was a few blocks further away, but moved here in 1921 when the city needed the space for a parking lot.
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It is a very nice house.
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The house has a morbidly thorough collection of Jefferson Davis memorobelia. Here are his slippers. They have shelf after shelf of his stuff; clothing, writings, even a lock of his hair.
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Davis' bed.
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A sitting room where he conducted some official business while at home.
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Hat, hairbrush, toothbrush, etc... The whole house was very creepy to me. Clearly presented as Jefferson as a hero, no different than any other presidential museum. I could find only one mention in the whole house that the Confederacy actually lost the war, and no mention of slavery at all.
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A full bottle of wine made by Davis in 1889.
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