[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 19 (Wednesday, January 30, 2019)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E114]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




      CONGRATULATIONS HOWARD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW CONVOCATION

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                         HON. GREGORY W. MEEKS

                              of new york

                    in the house of representatives

                      Wednesday, January 30, 2019

  Mr. MEEKS. Madam Speaker, through a Charter by the U.S. Congress, 
Howard University School of Law began as Howard University Law 
Department on January 6, 1867, during the Reconstruction Era, to 
provide legal education to students committed to the protection of the 
rights of African Americans. During this time, there was a great need 
to train lawyers who would have a strong commitment to help black 
Americans to secure and protect their rights and well as the rights of 
other marginalized communities. Howard Law also has significant ties to 
the Civil Rights Movement and other social movements that fought for 
civil rights throughout American history.
  Howard Law was the first school in the nation to have a 
nondiscriminatory admission policy, admitting both black and white male 
and female law students.
  Howard Law's mission is to:
  Educate and enable students to develop their highest capabilities and 
skills as lawyers;
  Engage as an institution in the active pursuit of solutions to 
domestic and international legal, social, economic and political 
problems that are of particular concern to minority groups; and
  Imbue its students with dedication to excellence and commitment to 
the solutions to those problems.
  Famous alumni and faculty of the school include Dean Charles Hamilton 
Houston--``the Man Who Killed Jim Crow,'' Thurgood Marshall--argued 
Brown v. Board of Education and the first African-American Justice, 
multiple Congressmen, senators, district judges, governors, mayors, and 
the former Prime Minister of Jamaica.
  We begin the celebration of the 150th Anniversary of its founding 
with a Sesquicentennial Convocation.
  I, Gregory W. Meeks, Member of the 116th Congress, do hereby 
congratulate Howard University School of Law on its 150th Anniversary, 
on January 7, 2019.

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