[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 97 (Tuesday, June 11, 2019)]
[House]
[Pages H4401-H4402]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                       HONORING THERESA BURROUGHS

  (Ms. SEWELL of Alabama asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute.)
  Ms. SEWELL of Alabama. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to honor the 
extraordinary life and legacy of Theresa Burroughs, a champion for 
voting rights and a foot soldier of the civil rights movement.
  Sadly, Mrs. Burroughs passed away on May 22, 2019, at the age of 89.
  Mrs. Burroughs dedicated her life to advancing equality and justice 
and making sure that future generations would learn about the 
sacrifices and the bravery of foot soldiers who marched, bled, and died 
for the right to vote and for civil rights in this country.
  She is best known for her stewardship in founding the Safe House 
Black History Museum in Greensboro, Alabama. The museum is located in 
the same house in Hale County where Dr. Martin Luther King hid out from 
the KKK on a visit to west Alabama in 1968. The museum houses materials 
to educate future generations of the local struggle that happened in 
the Black Belt of Alabama on behalf of all of us.
  I am deeply honored to have known Mrs. Burroughs, and, in fact, I had 
the opportunity to present Mrs. Burroughs with a Congressional Gold 
Medal for her participation in the 1965 march from Selma to Montgomery. 
I am deeply honored because I know I stand on the shoulders of Mrs. 
Burroughs. So many of us do. Her bright light will always glow through 
the many lives that

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she impacted. May my colleagues join me in celebrating the exemplary 
life of Mrs. Burroughs today and honor her great contributions to this 
Nation, the State of Alabama, and to the civil rights and voting rights 
movements.

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