[Congressional Record Volume 162, Number 64 (Tuesday, April 26, 2016)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E591]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                     CELEBRATING IVANHOE DONALDSON

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                       HON. ELEANOR HOLMES NORTON

                      of the district of columbia

                    in the house of representatives

                        Tuesday, April 26, 2016

  Ms. NORTON. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to ask the House of 
Representatives to join me in celebrating the life of Ivanhoe 
Donaldson, who passed on April 3, 2016. Ivanhoe Donaldson was born and 
raised in the Harlem section of New York City. He went south to join 
the civil rights movement and became a leader in the Student Nonviolent 
Coordinating Committee (SNCC). I first knew Ivanhoe as a young man and 
a leading civil rights activist. Like several movement activists, 
Ivanhoe moved to the District of Columbia, attracted by the city's 
home-rule aspirations.
  Ivanhoe took risks as an SNCC activist and went on to build a 
reputation for political savvy in the 1960s and 1970s. He became a 
leading operative in Julian Bond's bid for a seat in the Georgia House 
of Representatives, Richard Hatcher's mayoral campaign in Gary, 
Indiana, and Marion Barry's campaign for office in D.C., which ushered 
in a new era of black political leadership. Ivanhoe leaves many friends 
across the country from the civil rights movement to many residents of 
the District of Columbia.
  Mr. Speaker, I ask the House to please join me in celebrating the 
life of Ivanhoe Donaldson, who gave the best years of his life to the 
struggle for civil rights in the United States and to the fight for 
home rule in the District of Columbia.

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