[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 38 (Monday, March 1, 2021)]
[House]
[Page H872]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




            UNVEILING OF COLUMBIA, SOUTH CAROLINA, MONUMENT

  (Mr. CLYBURN asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. CLYBURN. Madam Speaker, tomorrow, at noon, the city of Columbia, 
South Carolina, Historic Columbia, and the University of South Carolina 
will unveil a monument that will mark the 60th anniversary of the 
landmark case Edwards v. South Carolina.
  That case resulted from the protest march of almost 200 college and 
high school students from across South Carolina who came to Columbia to 
protest segregation, discrimination, and what amounted to apartheid.
  Madam Speaker, 192 or 193 of us were arrested on that day, and 189 
were convicted. Two years later, the Supreme Court of the United States 
overturned those convictions in this historic and landmark case against 
South Carolina, which rendered an end to any State passing laws to 
subject protest marchers to anything but what they were.
  Madam Speaker, tomorrow, I will submit a full statement, thanking 
those for doing so.

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