[Congressional Record Volume 169, Number 82 (Tuesday, May 16, 2023)]
[House]
[Page H2372]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




     PATRICIA RUSSELL-McCLOUD SPEECH STILL CONTAINS RELEVANT THEMES

  (Mrs. BEATTY asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Mrs. BEATTY. Mr. Speaker, 43 years ago, the trailblazing Ohioan, a 
friend, and founder of the Congressional Black Caucus, Congressman 
Louis Stokes, stood on this very floor and entered into the Record an 
extraordinary speech.
  It was a speech he had heard by a young, accomplished, talented Black 
American, a lawyer, Patricia Russell-McCloud titled, ``If Not You, Who? 
If Not Now, When?''
  It was a speech with themes that are still very much relevant today: 
of what does it mean to be Black in America and the struggle to carve 
out a place in society.
  I am pleased to say that Patricia Russell-McCloud now lives in Ohio's 
Third Congressional District and is one of my constituents, a mentor, 
and friend.
  I cannot recommend enough that my colleagues refer to the 
Congressional Record of May 14, 1980, and seek out her wise and 
inspirational words.

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