A long time ago, about 10,000 years ago, people in Alabama were natives, the tribes were Cherokee, the Chickasaw, and the Choctaw.And last but not least, the Cree. Spanish explorers arrived n the 1500s.The area was controlled by England, France ,then Spain.Then it was given to the USA along with Mississippi.In the 1950s and 60s, Alabama was at the heart of civil rights movement and Rosa parks refused to give up her seat on a bus to a white man in Montgomery.Most protests were led by Martin Luther King jr.