[Congressional Record Volume 158, Number 33 (Thursday, March 1, 2012)]
[House]
[Page H1116]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




               COMMEMORATING ALABAMA CIVIL RIGHTS MARCHES

  (Ms. JACKSON LEE of Texas asked and was given permission to address 
the House for 1 minute.)
  Ms. JACKSON LEE of Texas. Mr. Speaker, I wanted to rise to the floor 
to add my appreciation in celebration of H. Res. 562, directing the 
Office of the Historian to compile oral histories from Members of the 
House of Representatives involved in the historic and annual Selma to 
Montgomery, Alabama, marches, and certainly those who started in 1965.
  Let me first of all thank the sponsor of the bill, Terri Sewell, and 
acknowledge that I've had the privilege of marching across the Edmund 
Pettus Bridge for almost two decades with the Faith & Politics 
organization and John Lewis.
  Just a couple of weeks ago, I was in Marion, Alabama, receiving an 
award from the Perry County organization with Commissioner Turner on 
commemorating Jimmie Lee Jackson Day, who was the first person shot who 
went to a rally that Dr. Martin Luther King held simply to express his 
right to vote. He was shot trying to protect his mom and his 
grandmother, dragged out of the place and stomped to death.
  Now some 45 years later, we're able to commemorate, but we must 
recount the stories of those who were there and those who still march 
today. As we proceed to improve on voting today and end the oppression 
of voter IDs, it is appropriate to celebrate this resolution and to 
march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge this coming Bloody Sunday.

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