HJR 100 Summary

• Name a portion of Alabama Highway 8 (U.S. Highway 80) from mile marker 85.191 to mile marker 120.591 the John R. Lewis Memorial Highway.

• The named section extends from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama.

• Appropriate officials are requested to place and maintain signs or markers designating the memorial highway.

• Honors Congressman John Lewis (1940-2020), who was born in Alabama, organized sit-in demonstrations, participated as one of the 13 original Freedom Riders, and led the 1965 march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma.

• Lewis served Georgia's Fifth Congressional District from his election in November 1986 until his death on July 17, 2020.