HJR124 Summary

• Designates the portion of Alabama Highway 8 (U.S. Highway 80) in Lowndes County from mile marker 99.558 to mile marker 120.591 as the Robert "Bob" Mants, Jr. Memorial Highway.

• Honors Robert C. Mants, Jr., a civil rights activist who participated in the 1965 Selma-to-Montgomery March and was in the front ranks of marchers on Bloody Sunday at the Edmund Pettus Bridge.

• Recognizes Mants' work in Lowndes County registering Black voters, organizing the Lowndes County Freedom Organization (which adopted a black panther as its logo), and establishing a "Tent City" for residents evicted in retaliation for voter registration.

• Notes Mants' service as a Lowndes County Commissioner and President of the Lowndes County Friends of Civil Rights Movement Trail prior to his death on December 7, 2011.

• Requests appropriate officials to place and maintain commemorative signs or markers along the designated highway section.