[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 82 (Wednesday, May 12, 2021)]
[House]
[Page H2199]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                        SLAVERY REMEMBRANCE DAY

  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Chair recognizes the gentleman from 
Texas (Mr. Green) for 5 minutes.
  Mr. GREEN of Texas. Mr. Speaker, the British statesman, Sir Winston 
Churchill, is credited with having stated that those who fail to learn 
from history are doomed to repeat it. This is the reason why, in part, 
I will be introducing legislation for a slavery remembrance day. 
Currently, no such day exists in the United States.
  National days of remembrance provide an effective means to honor 
those impacted by horrific events. They prevent the tragedy from fading 
from our memories by educating the generations to come, and they 
highlight the modern-day implications of such events.
  My resolution would provide a day for slavery remembrance, and the 
language of the resolution would commemorate the lives of all enslaved 
people, while condemning the act and the perpetration as well as 
perpetuation of slavery in the United States of America and across the 
world.
  The resolution would discuss the Middle Passage, the Underground 
Railroad, and the lives of Nat Turner, Harriet Tubman, and John Brown. 
It would also make the 18 persons who were elected to Congress from the 
Reconstruction era as honorary cosponsors of the resolution in a 
posthumous way.
  I am proud to do this, and I ask that all Members please consider 
becoming original cosponsors of the resolution.

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