An Alabama ceremony coincides with the day in 1955 when Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her bus seat to a white man.
Author: Sara MacNeil, Montgomery Advertiser
Alabama real estate agent fired after ad about election of city’s first black mayor
The advertisement was posted after Steven Reed was elected Montgomery’s first African-American mayor.
‘A historic day’: Montgomery, Alabama, elects its first African-American mayor
Steven Reed, the Montgomery County probate judge, beat TV station owner David Woods and will be sworn in as the city’s first black mayor Nov. 12.