[Congressional Record Volume 159, Number 152 (Tuesday, October 29, 2013)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E1594]
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                      HONORING CHARLES L. BLOCKSON

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                          HON. ROBERT A. BRADY

                            of pennsylvania

                    in the house of representatives

                       Tuesday, October 29, 2013

  Mr. BRADY of Pennsylvania. Mr. Speaker, I rise to honor the 
scholarship and dedication of historian Charles L. Blockson, upon the 
occasion of the publication of his latest book--The President's House 
Revisited Behind The Scenes: The Samuel Fraunces Story. For most of his 
life Mr. Blockson has collected and preserved African and African 
American historical tomes, art and artifacts. In 2001 I was privileged 
to have sponsored an appropriation to fund the digitalization of the 
Collection.
  Housed at Temple University, the Collection is one of the nation's 
leading research facilities for the study of the history and culture of 
Africans of the Diaspora with special emphasis on the lives and 
experiences of African Americans in Philadelphia and the surrounding 
Delaware Valley.
  I am proud to know this much esteemed and dedicated man who has 
provided us with a window into the lives of the African and African 
Americans who too often have been written out of history. I salute 
Charles L. Blockson, a distinguished scholar.

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