HR71 Summary

• Commemorates the renaming of the Marion Post Office to the "Albert Turner, Sr. Post Office Building" in recognition of his civil rights leadership.

• Albert Turner, Sr., born February 29, 1936, in Marion, Alabama, founded the Perry County Civic League in 1963 with his wife Evelyn and Spencer Hogue to organize Black protests and voting rights campaigns.

• Turner's activism led to the registration of 150 Black voters in Perry County and attracted the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, which appointed him as field secretary for Alabama; he later helped establish the National Voting Rights Museum and Institute in Selma.

• In 1985, Turner, his wife, and Spencer Hogue were indicted by U.S. Attorney Jeff Sessions on 29 counts of mail fraud related to the 1984 Perry County Democratic Primary, but were acquitted by a jury after a three-week trial.

• Turner served four terms on the Perry County Commission beginning in 1988, championing education, public health initiatives, and economic development for poor and working-class residents.