[Congressional Record Volume 152, Number 32 (Tuesday, March 14, 2006)]
[House]
[Page H877]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                          TRIBUTE TO REBY CARY

  (Mr. BURGESS asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. BURGESS. Mr. Speaker, last month, February, was Black History 
Month, but indeed every month it is appropriate to honor the Black 
Americans who have contributed so much to the rich history and tapestry 
of our country. For that purpose, I want to rise and acknowledge one of 
my constituents today: Mr. Reby Cary.
  Mr. Cary is an African American from Fort Worth, Texas. He served on 
the school board back in the 1970s. He was elected to the Texas House, 
District 95, one of the few African Americans to serve in that body in 
the 1970s.
  After his retirement from the House, he went on to a professorship at 
the University of Texas at Arlington, where he established African 
American studies as part of the curriculum. He is well versed on local 
aspects of African American history and has been a prolific author over 
the years. In fact, he has produced voluminous written material. His 
seminal work was ``Princes Shall Come Out of Egypt, Texas and Forth 
Worth.''
  Mr. Cary has made it his life's work, for what years remain to him, 
to make certain that this Congressman is educated about the rich 
history of Black Americans in north Texas, and for that I thank him.

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