[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 62 (Thursday, April 7, 2022)]
[House]
[Page H4400]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                  HAPPY 104TH BIRTHDAY TO DAISY MURRAY

  (Ms. LEE of California asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. LEE of California. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to honor one of my 
incredible constituents, Mrs. Daisy Murray, who will be celebrating her 
104th birthday on Monday, April 11. Mrs. Murray has been a resident of 
San Leandro for more than 30 years and has made many wonderful 
contributions to our East Bay community.
  Mrs. Daisy Murray was born in 1919 to a family that was only a few 
generations removed from slavery, as her grandmother was the daughter 
of an enslaved person. Mrs. Murray's parents faced racism and violence 
living in the South, and when they got married, they relocated to Ohio, 
where Ms. Daisy was born and raised.
  I think it was in the mid-1970s, Mrs. Murray founded the Sojourner 
Truth Manor, the first affordable residency for adults and seniors in 
the country created by an African-American businesswoman.
  I worked very hard on this when I was a student at Mills College, and 
I remember a woman we called Ms. Dorothy, worked with Mrs. Murray on 
this. It is still a thriving community, the affordable housing 
community. It is located in Oakland on Martin Luther King Jr. Way. It 
still exists to this day, and it has housed generations of adults and 
seniors in need.
  On behalf of the 13th Congressional District of California, I want to 
thank Mrs. Daisy Murray for her many good works and everything that she 
has done to enrich our East Bay community. I wish her a happy 104th 
birthday. Happy birthday, Mrs. Daisy Murray.

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