Alabama: money appropriated for Selma-Montgomery March center
The Montgomery Advertiser reports: A second museum along the Selma-to-Montgomery Historic Trail received a $1 million boost from Congress on Thursday as Selma Mayor James Perkins Jr. pledged his support for a third interpretive center in Alabama's Capital City.
U.S. Rep. Artur Davis, D-Birmingham, drew loud applause when he said the $1 million House appropriation was one of the largest in the nation approved this year by the Department of the Interior. ...
The Montgomery County interpretive center is scheduled to be built on the property of the City of St. Jude, which served as the staging area for the final leg to the Capitol on March 25, 1965. Alabama State University supporters have proposed moving the center from St. Jude on Fairview Avenue to the ASU campus, but that decision likely will be made by the federal government. -- montgomeryadvertiser.com :: Selma gets $1 million for historic trail museum