[Congressional Record Volume 161, Number 89 (Thursday, June 4, 2015)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E847]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




              CELEBRATING THE LIFE OF MS. MARGARET JACKSON

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                         HON. CHARLES B. RANGEL

                              of new york

                    in the house of representatives

                         Thursday, June 4, 2015

  Mr. RANGEL. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to recognize and honor the life 
of Ms. Margaret Jackson, a well respected Harlem activist, business 
woman and all around exemplary human being.
  Margaret Jackson serves her community not merely through rhetoric but 
in her noble actions. The Martin Luther King Jr. Democratic Club 
exemplifies excellent civic service and brings hope and joy to 
countless citizens by keeping the legacy of the Reverend Doctor Martin 
Luther King Jr. at the forefront of our collective cultural 
consciousness. Margaret Jackson was the president of that institution. 
Under her leadership, the club continued its core principle of 
continuing a sense of altruistic civic mindedness, the likes of which 
brought great pride to her community. She wasn't, however, merely a 
member of but one institution focused on community service; she was 
instrumental to several. Ms. Jackson was the treasurer of the Harlem 
YMCA where she worked with competence, professionalism, and dignity, 
and a member of St. Phillip's Episcopal Church where she served and 
worshipped with great dignity. She was the epitome of a civic minded 
spiritualist.
  Margaret Jackson was an exceptional person, a polymath who mastered 
many trades and served the public in many ways. She not only made a 
great impact in the non-profit sector, but she owned several successful 
businesses. Margaret Jackson was president of two funeral homes, which 
she led with competence, humanitarian compassion, and a heartfelt and 
deeply meaningful sense of care towards the neediest among us: traits 
vital in the managing of a funeral home, where those who came to her 
needed compassion more than anything else. She also proved her economic 
expertise in her ownership of a successful realty corporation, which 
she ran skillfully and prosperously, but always with a civic minded 
wholly humanitarian desire to serve the needy.
  Mr. Speaker, I ask that you and my distinguished colleagues join me 
in recognizing this wonderful person and all of the good that she stood 
for. The United States is built upon the backs of its most civic and 
conscientious citizens.

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