[Congressional Record Volume 164, Number 104 (Thursday, June 21, 2018)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E890]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




TRIBUTE TO MR. MINOR J. ALLEN, SR., OUTSTANDING BUSINESSMAN AND SOCIAL/
                           POLITICAL ACTIVIST

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                          HON. DANNY K. DAVIS

                              of illinois

                    in the house of representatives

                        Thursday, June 21, 2018

  Mr. DANNY K. DAVIS of Illinois. Mr. Speaker, having grown up in the 
state of Arkansas, when I meet people from Arkansas I am generally glad 
to meet them, when I discovered that Mr. Minor Allen was from 
Blytheville I was ecstatic and we became great friends and we often 
would talk about Harrison High School. In addition to having a 
wonderful family and being a great friend, he was one of the smoothest 
and greatest business people that I have ever known. He exuded 
friendship and was as much of a social activist as I have known. I did 
not know that he was so closely connected to Bishop Willie James 
Campbell and his family. Bishop Campbell preached my ordination service 
when I became a deacon at a Baptist church (smile). Mr. Minor Allen was 
a true servant of God and of the people. May he continue to rest in 
peace. He and Bishop Campbell must have been cut from the same cloth, 
both are great humanitarians.

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