[Congressional Record Volume 166, Number 214 (Thursday, December 17, 2020)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Pages E1171-E1172]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                          MORRIS BROWN COLLEGE

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                            HON. KWANZA HALL

                               of georgia

                    in the house of representatives

                      Thursday, December 17, 2020

  Mr. HALL. Madam Speaker, To God and Truth.
  That is the motto of Morris Brown College.
  This is a historic institution which was founded in 1881 as a private 
Methodist college in Atlanta to educate blacks, just 20 years after the 
start of the Civil War.
  Unfortunately, over the last 20 years, the state of this legendary 
institution has fallen on hard times.
  But true to its tradition and the abolitionist mantra to keep going, 
Morris Brown College has developed a plan to come back and be reborn.
  Madam Speaker, I rise today to urge this body's support for this plan 
in two distinct ways.
  First, we should reallocate federal funding for this place of 
knowledge and of truth and of God.
  And, we should do what we can to reinvest in the revitalization of 
the Atlanta University Center.
  If we do this, then the College can repurpose itself to the proud 
tradition of teaching the next generation of black scholars the 
important lessons of business and entrepreneurship.

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  In so doing, we can support this next generation to ensure that the 
black wealth gap begins to narrow and all can realize and take part in 
the American dream.

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