Alabama became the 22nd state to join the United States of America.
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Rosa Parks was arrested.
Alabama passed the Human Life Protection Act, enacting a near-total ban on abortions.
Florida, one of the confederate states, was readmitted to the Union.
Martin Luther King Jr. writes 'Letter from a Birmingham Jail'.
Alabama Governor George Wallace stood in front of the schoolhouse door, refusing entry to two African American students.
