[Congressional Record Volume 159, Number 85 (Friday, June 14, 2013)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E860]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                       HONORING M. JUANITA SCOTT

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                        HON. BENNIE G. THOMPSON

                             of mississippi

                    in the house of representatives

                        Thursday, June 13, 2013

  Mr. THOMPSON of Mississippi. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to honor a 
remarkable public servant, Ms. M. (Mildred) Juanita Scott.
  Ms. Scott is the 6th child of 9 to William Scott and Mattie L. Taylor 
Scott Pace. She was born, raised and currently lives in Sunflower 
County, Mississippi.
  Ms. Scott received her early education at First Church/School 
Kinlock, under the leadership of Mr. and Mrs. Ratcliff and later 
attended Sunflower County Baptist Association School under the 
leadership of Mr. N. A. Brantley, later named Carver Elementary School. 
She left Carver School in the 7th and graduated from the 8th grade at 
Magnolia Elementary, in Memphis, Tennessee, under the guidance of Mrs. 
Harry Mae Simon; attended Booker T. Washington High School, in Memphis, 
Tennessee, and graduated June 1958 with honors, under the guidance of 
Blair T. Hunt; attended Coahoma Jr. College and received an AA Degree 
in Library Science, with honors; she furthered her education at Delta 
State University, in Cleveland, Mississippi; and earned a special 
training certificate at Southern University, in Early Childhood 
Education, in Hattiesburg, Mississippi.
  Ms. Scott is one of the first pioneers of Child Development Group of 
Mississippi (CDGM), in Sunflower County and helped type the proposal 
for the Association Community of Sunflower County under the 
Directorship of Mrs. Cora Flemings and Mr. Frank Glover.
  Ms. Scott worked with Fannie Lou Hamer helping people to vote in 
Sunflower County. She also served on the Bi-Racial Committee helping to 
integrate schools in Indianola. Her home was one of several homes who 
housed individual Freedom Workers who lived in Indianola. Moreover, Ms. 
Scott helped to boycott Indianola under the leadership of Willie 
Spurlock to see that blacks could be hired in banks, department stores 
and public facilities as cashiers in Indianola. She ended up being 
jailed because at that time, blacks could not use public library 
facilities. Authorities removed tables and chairs so blacks could not 
sit down at the Seymour Henry M. Library Facility.
  Ms. Scott is a member of Bethlehem #2 Missionary Baptist Church, 
where she currently serves as church secretary/treasurer and Sunday 
school teacher. She is involved in many other activities/organizations 
like: being the secretary of the Sunflower County chapter of the NAACP; 
serving as the first black woman chairperson for Sunflower County 
Democratic Executive Committee; coordinated President Barack Obama's 
campaign literature for Sunflower County in 2008 and 2012; served as 
den mother for over 32 cub scouts, from 1970 to 1985; she is pictured 
with an article in the book ``Life and Death in the Delta'' by Kim Lacy 
Rogers; she is a pioneer Civil Rights Worker in her town, county, and 
state; is presently employed part-time with the Bolivar County 
Community Action Agency; and worked 46 years as Administrative 
Assistant/Finance Department with this agency.
  Mr. Speaker, I ask my colleagues to join me in recognizing Ms. M. 
Juanita Scott for her dedication to serving others and giving back to 
the African American community.

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