HJR48 Summary

• Designates U.S. Highway 29 South (SR-15) from mile point 162.582 to 164.609 in Tuskegee, Alabama as the Lucius D. Amerson Memorial Highway in perpetuity.

• Honors Sheriff Lucius D. Amerson, an Army veteran who became the first African American sheriff elected in the deep South after Reconstruction in the late 1960s following passage of the Voting Rights Act.

• Recognizes Sheriff Amerson's historical significance as a symbol of progress for Black Americans fighting for equality and his role in demonstrating the importance of diversity in law enforcement.

• Requests the Alabama Department of Transportation to erect appropriate signs and markers designating the memorial highway.

• Resolution adopted by the House on February 27, 2020, and by the Senate on May 5, 2020.