[Congressional Bills 107th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1180 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







107th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1180

 To direct the Secretary of the Interior to study the suitability and 
 feasibility of designating the International Civil Rights Center and 
 Museum in the State of North Carolina as a unit of the National Park 
                    System, and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             July 16, 2001

  Mr. Edwards introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
       referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources

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                                 A BILL


 
 To direct the Secretary of the Interior to study the suitability and 
 feasibility of designating the International Civil Rights Center and 
 Museum in the State of North Carolina as a unit of the National Park 
                    System, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``International Civil Rights Center 
and Museum Study Act of 2001''.

SEC. 2. FINDINGS.

    Congress finds that--
            (1) on February 1, 1960, 4 black North Carolina A&T State 
        University students, Ezell Blair, Jr., Franklin McCain, Joseph 
        McNeil, and David Richmond, sat at the whites-only lunch 
        counter of a Woolworth store in Greensboro, North Carolina, to 
        protest segregation;
            (2) in the following days hundreds of students joined the 
        protest and participated in the Woolworth sit-in;
            (3) the Woolworth sit-in inspired similar sit-ins in 
        hundreds of communities throughout the United States and was 
        instrumental in leading to the desegregation of public 
        facilities in the South;
            (4) the Woolworth sit-in was a prominent event in the 
        history of the civil rights movement;
            (5) Woolworth closed the lunch counter in the Greensboro, 
        North Carolina, store in October 1993 and donated a section of 
        the counter, 4 stools, and other items to the Smithsonian 
        Institution for display at the National Museum of American 
        History;
            (6) the former Woolworth store is located in a district 
        listed on the National Register of Historic Places; and
            (7) community leaders and businesses in Greensboro, North 
        Carolina, have undertaken significant efforts to preserve the 
        historic site of the sit-in and convert the former Woolworth 
        store into a museum devoted to the history of the civil rights 
        movement.

SEC. 3. DEFINITIONS.

    In this Act--
            (1) Museum.--The term ``Museum'' means the International 
        Civil Rights Center and Museum located in Greensboro, North 
        Carolina.
            (2) Secretary.--The term ``Secretary'' means the Secretary 
        of the Interior, acting through the Director of the National 
        Park Service.
            (3) State.--The term ``State'' means the State of North 
        Carolina.

SEC. 4. FEASIBILITY STUDY.

    (a) In General.--The Secretary shall, in consultation with the 
Governor of the State, carry out a study on the suitability and 
feasibility of designating the Museum as a unit of the National Park 
System.
    (b) Applicable Law.--Section 8(c) of Public Law 91-383 (16 U.S.C. 
1a-5(c)) shall apply to the conduct and completion of the study under 
subsection (a).
    (c) Report.--
            (1) In general.--The Secretary shall submit to the 
        Committee on Resources of the House of Representatives and the 
        Committee on Energy and Natural Resources of the Senate a 
        report describing the results of the study.
            (2) Contents.--In addition to the findings required by 
        section 8(c) of Public Law 91-383 (16 U.S.C. 1a-5(c)), the 
        report shall contain findings on--
                    (A) the types of Federal, State, and local programs 
                that are available to assist with the development of 
                the Museum; and
                    (B) the potential use of, and coordination with, 
                Federal, State, and local programs to assist in the 
                management of the historical and cultural resources of 
                the Museum.
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