• the Joseph T. Smitherman Historic Building in Selma, Alabama, has housed a county courthouse, two schools, and three hospitals in its more than 160 year history?

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Montgomery, Alabama

• disc jockeys at WLWI-FM in Montgomery, Alabama, USA, have been nominated for Country Music Association Awards six times since 1981?
• radio station WLWI in Montgomery, Alabama, founded in 1930 as WSFA, gave country music legend Hank Williams his start as a professional musician?
• radio station WMSP in Montgomery, Alabama, broadcasts the college football games of both the Alabama Crimson Tide and arch-rival Auburn Tigers?
• Sammy Stephens, an internet sensation for his "It's just like a mini-mall" rap advertisements for Flea Market Montgomery, got his start in broadcasting at WMGY in Montgomery, Alabama, USA?
• William Robert Ming helped obtain an acquittal on perjury charges for Martin Luther King, Jr. from an all-white jury in 1960 in Montgomery, Alabama?
• an attack on Freedom Riders in May 1961 at the Greyhound Bus Station in Montgomery, Alabama, led the Kennedy administration to side, for the first time, with civil rights activists?
• on May 21, 1961, Martin Luther King, Jr. sat in the basement of the Montgomery, Alabama First Baptist Church (pictured), besieged by thousands, urging Robert F. Kennedy to desegregate interstate travel?
• the Patrick Henry Brittan House in Montgomery, Alabama, was built in 1858 by the 10th Secretary of State of Alabama?