[Congressional Bills 111th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Res. 1022 Introduced in House (IH)]

111th CONGRESS
  2d Session
H. RES. 1022

Honoring the life and sacrifice of Medgar Evers and congratulating the 
    United States Navy for naming a supply ship after Medgar Evers.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 20, 2010

    Mr. Johnson of Georgia (for himself, Mr. Bishop of Georgia, Ms. 
  Bordallo, Mr. Carson of Indiana, Mrs. Christensen, Ms. Clarke, Mr. 
 Cleaver, Mr. Hastings of Florida, Mr. Towns, Mr. Filner, Ms. Corrine 
Brown of Florida, Mr. Lamborn, Mr. Meeks of New York, Mr. Conyers, Mr. 
Payne, Mr. Thompson of Mississippi, Mr. Davis of Illinois, Mr. Sestak, 
  Ms. Lee of California, Mr. Butterfield, Mr. Scott of Virginia, Mr. 
   Jackson of Illinois, Ms. Moore of Wisconsin, Ms. Richardson, Mr. 
Cummings, Ms. Watson, Mr. Brady of Pennsylvania, Mr. Cohen, Ms. Edwards 
   of Maryland, Mr. Gutierrez, Mr. Massa, Mr. Al Green of Texas, Ms. 
    Norton, Mr. Clay, Mr. Rangel, Ms. Fudge, Mr. Rush, Mr. Lewis of 
   Georgia, Mr. Meek of Florida, Mr. Davis of Alabama, Ms. Chu, Ms. 
 Jackson Lee of Texas, Mr. Fattah, Mr. Marshall, Mr. Scott of Georgia, 
    Mr. Clyburn, Ms. Eddie Bernice Johnson of Texas, Mr. Watt, Ms. 
    Kilpatrick of Michigan, and Ms. Waters) submitted the following 
 resolution; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and 
  in addition to the Committee on Armed Services, for a period to be 
subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration 
  of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee 
                               concerned

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                               RESOLUTION


 
Honoring the life and sacrifice of Medgar Evers and congratulating the 
    United States Navy for naming a supply ship after Medgar Evers.

Whereas Medgar Evers was born on July 2, 1925, in Decatur, Mississippi;
Whereas Mr. Evers was hired by Dr. Theodore Roosevelt Mason Howard to sell 
        insurance for the Magnolia Mutual Life Insurance Company;
Whereas Mr. Evers was inducted into United States Army in 1943 and fought in the 
        Battle of Normandy;
Whereas Dr. Howard, as President of the Regional Council of Negro Leadership, 
        helped to introduce Mr. Evers to civil rights activism;
Whereas Mr. Evers applied to the then-segregated University of Mississippi 
        School of Law in February 1954;
Whereas Mr. Evers' application was rejected resulting in a National Association 
        for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) campaign to desegregate 
        the school;
Whereas Mr. Evers was hired as a field secretary for the NAACP;
Whereas Mr. Evers was the target of a number of death threats as a result of his 
        activism;
Whereas, on May 28, 1963, a Molotov cocktail was thrown into the carport of Mr. 
        Evers's home and five days before his death Mr. Evers was assaulted by a 
        car outside of an NAACP office;
Whereas Mr. Evers was assassinated in the driveway of his home in Jackson after 
        returning from a meeting with NAACP lawyers on June 12, 1963;
Whereas this assassination occurred just hours after President John F. Kennedy's 
        speech on national television in support of civil rights;
Whereas the death of Mr. Evers helped to prompt President John F. Kennedy to ask 
        Congress for a comprehensive civil rights bill;
Whereas that bill, the Civil Rights Act of 1964, was signed into law by 
        President Lyndon Johnson;
Whereas Mr. Evers' assassination has been memorialized in numerous popular 
        songs, movies, and written pieces;
Whereas in 1969, Medgar Evers College was established in Brooklyn, New York, as 
        part of the City University of New York;
Whereas, on June 28, 1992, the city of Jackson, Mississippi erected a statue in 
        honor of Mr. Evers;
Whereas in December 2004, the Jackson City Council changed the name of the 
        city's airport to Jackson-Evers International Airport; and
Whereas, on October 9, 2009, Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus announced that the 
        United States Naval Ship (USNS) Medgar Evers (T-AKE-13), a Lewis and 
        Clark-class dry cargo ship, will be named after Mr. Evers: Now, 
        therefore, be it
    Resolved, That the House of Representatives--
            (1) honors the life and sacrifice of Medgar Evers;
            (2) recognizes the important role Mr. Evers played in 
        securing civil rights for all people in the United States; and
            (3) congratulates the United States Navy for honoring 
        Medgar Evers by naming the United States Naval Ship Medgar 
        Evers after him.
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