AL HJR216

Mourns the death of Dr. John L. Cashin of Huntsville, Alabama, who died on March 21, 2011, at age 82.

Recognizes Dr. Cashin as an icon of the Civil Rights Movement and the first Black to run for Governor of Alabama in 1970, receiving 125,491 votes (approximately 15 percent).

Acknowledges his founding of the National Democratic Party of Alabama in the late 1960s as an alternative to the racially exclusive Alabama Democratic Party, which helped elect more than 100 Blacks to local offices by 1970.

Notes his educational achievements including a D.D.S. degree from Meharry Medical School in 1952 and his service as First Lieutenant and Chief of Dental Services in the U.S. Army.

Directs that a copy of the resolution be sent to his daughter, Sheryll D. Cashin, expressing the legislature's heartfelt sympathy to his family.