Editing Bibb County, Alabama (section)

==History==
Cahawba County was established ("erected") on February 7, 1818, named for the Cahawba River (now more commonly known as [[Cahaba River]]). This name came from the [[Choctaw]] language word meaning "water above."  On December 4, 1820, it was renamed as Bibb County.<ref>{{cite web| work = Alabama Department of Archives and History | title = Alabama Counties: Bibb County | url = http://www.archives.state.al.us/counties/bibb.html | location = Montgomery, AL | date = December 13, 2011 | access-date = April 30, 2012}}</ref>

In the wake of the [[American Civil War]], the state legislature passed laws to create a new constitution that raised barriers to voter registration and effectively excluded [[Freedman|Freedmen]] from the political process. Many residents resisted the objectives of [[Union (American Civil War)|Union]] occupation both during and after [[Reconstruction era|Reconstruction]] because they wanted to restore the [[Antebellum South|Antebellum]] social and political norms. During this time of transition, Bibb, Dallas, and [[Pickens County, Alabama|Pickens]] counties held the third-highest number of lynchings in the state.<ref>[http://www.eji.org/files/Lynching_in_America_Supplement_by_County_2nd_Edition.pdf "Supplement: Lynchings by County/ Alabama: Bibb", 2nd edition] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160410175503/http://www.eji.org/files/Lynching_in_America_Supplement_by_County_2nd_Edition.pdf |date=April 10, 2016 }}, from ''Lynching in America: Confronting the Legacy of Racial Terror'', 2015, Equal Justice Institute, Montgomery, Alabama</ref>  On June 18, 1919, [[Lynching of Jim McMillan|Jim McMillan]] was lynched by a White mob. On November 7, 2000, Bibb County voted against a proposed amendment to Alabama's constitution to abolish the prohibition of interracial marriages.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.sos.alabama.gov/sites/default/files/voter-pdfs/2000/2000g-amend.pdf|title="Alabama Secretary of State: State and local proposed constitutional amendments"}}</ref>