[Congressional Record Volume 149, Number 32 (Thursday, February 27, 2003)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E311]
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                       TRIBUTE TO ROBERT MANIECE

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                        HON. BENNIE G. THOMPSON

                             of mississippi

                    in the house of representatives

                      Thursday, February 27, 2003

  Mr. THOMPSON of Mississippi. Mr. Speaker, in commemoration of Black 
History Month, I would like to take this opportunity to recognize the 
many accomplishments of distinguished African-Americans in 
Mississippi's Second Congressional District.
  Dr. Robert Maniece is presently serving as interim Superintendent for 
the Quitman County School District. In 1967, Robert Maniece led a 
number of black students over to then Marks Junior High, a 
predominately white school. That action led to the integration of the 
public school in 1971.
  In the same year the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King visited Marks, 
he also visited Mississippi's Cotton Street, the street on which Robert 
and his family lived. This is the place where Dr. King witnessed 
families so victimized by poverty that he created the Poor People 
Campaign. Thereafter, Robert and his family members became heavily 
involved in this fight to rid the Nation of poverty and want. He has 
traveled to Washington, D.C. many times to participate in the protests 
and has continued to fight the fight for those in the greatest need.
  In 1993, he became Director of Instruction and Professional 
Development Coordinator for Quitman Mississippi County Schools. In that 
position, he has led the District from academic probation to one of the 
best performing schools in all the Mississippi Delta and the State.

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