Alabama became the 22nd state to join the United States of America.
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Florida, one of the confederate states, was readmitted to the Union.
Alabama Governor George Wallace stood in front of the schoolhouse door, refusing entry to two African American students.
The Confederate States of America are established.
Martin Luther King Jr. writes 'Letter from a Birmingham Jail'.
An EF4 multiple-vortex tornado destroyed areas of two major Alabama cities: Tuscaloosa and Birmingham.
