AL SJR57

Names the portion of Interstate 165 corridor connecting Interstate 10 to Interstate 65 in Mobile County the "Michael A. Figures Freeway"

Honors Senator Michael A. Figures, the first African American Senator representing Mobile County, who served 18 years in the State House

Recognizes Figures' accomplishments including being one of the first three African Americans to earn a Juris Doctorate from University of Alabama School of Law and his service as co-counsel with the Southern Poverty Law Center against the United Klans of America

Notes Figures' "Helping Schools" tag campaign generates over $600,000 annually for local schools and his posthumous induction into the Alabama Lawyers Hall of Fame in 2009

Directs appropriate officials to place and maintain signs or markers for the freeway naming