[Congressional Record Volume 166, Number 40 (Friday, February 28, 2020)]
[House]
[Page H1256]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                   ACKNOWLEDGING LOCAL NAACP LEADERS

  (Ms. DEAN asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. DEAN. Madam Speaker, as Black History Month comes to an end, I 
would like to acknowledge some of my local NAACP leaders:
  Ms. Val Ward of Willow Grove; Mr. Craig Brown of Cheltenham; Shaykh 
Anwar Muhammad of Ambler; Mr. John Milligan of Norristown; Ms. Diana 
Robertson of the Main Line; Mr. Johnny Corson of Pottstown, whose 
ancestral farm in Plymouth Meeting was a key stop on the Underground 
Railway.
  Madam Speaker, I want to thank these and other local leaders for 
their tireless efforts toward racial equality.
  Today, I am pleased to stand here to tell you about a roundtable that 
we held on Monday with Black business owners. As one constituent 
expressed to me, they need allies; and so I stand here today as an ally 
for the Montgomery County and Berks County communities in pursuit of a 
world free from divides of race, ethnicity, gender, and nationality.
  Yes, Black History Month is ending tomorrow. May we never stop 
celebrating Black History Month. It is our American history, and it is 
the pathway to equality for all.

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