FRANK M. JOHNSON JR. FEDERAL BUILDING & UNITED STATES COURTHOUSE

Frank M. Johnson Jr. Federal Building and United States Courthouse, formerly known as United States Post Office and Courthouse (the post déménaga in 1978), is a building dating back to 1933. His current name was given to him in tribute to Judge Frank Mini Johnson Jr. (1918-1999), which served here from 1955 to 1999. This brave jurist has made many important decisions to defend civil rights in America. Among them is the recognition as illegal of ségréation in public transport, justifying this fact: the Freedom Wrinkles of 1961, the permission of the March de Selma to Montgomery in March 1965, the requirement that women and blacks be allowed to sit as jurors in Alabama and the desegregation of the State police of Alabama. The building has been inscribed on the National Register of Historic Sites since 1998.