WASHINGTON – Members of Alabama’s federal delegation are calling for the historic Montgomery bus station, home to the Freedom Rides Museum, to be removed from the list of hundreds of properties the federal General Services Administration planned last week to sell. The list has since been deleted from the GSA site.
The Montgomery bus station was one of six Alabama properties on the GSA’s “non-core property list” published Tuesday marked for “disposal.” The list had more than 443 properties nationwide. It was deleted Wednesday. The website now reads, “Non-core property list (Coming soon).”
U.S. Reps. Terri Sewell, D-Birmingham, and Shomari Figures, D-Mobile, sent a letter to the GSA Thursday asking for the Freedom Rides Museum to be removed from that list…