History is rich in this place, where Rosa Parks refused to give up her bus seat for a white person in 1955, triggering the 381-day Montgomery Bus Boycott and fuelling the modern Civil Rights movement. With everything from the National Center for the Study of Civil Rights & African-American Culture to the Scott & Zelda Fitzgerald Museum to the Alabama Shakespeare Festival to the Hank Williams Memorial, the city ranked #22 in our Culture subcategory, and #36 for Programming overall. Maxwell Gunter Air Force Base is the city’s leading employer, and it will soon direct more jobs and money into the city. Beginning in 2023, Donnelly Field will be one of two sites for Air National Guard F-35A Lightning II fighter jets, expected to result in $50-million in construction and other military investment.