[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 13]
[House]
[Page 17461]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




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                    HONORING HAZEL HAINESWORTH YOUNG

  (Ms. JACKSON-LEE of Texas asked and was given permission to address 
the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. JACKSON-LEE of Texas. Mr. Speaker, I rise with great pride and a 
deep sense of sadness. Pride because I'm honoring Hazel Hainesworth 
Young, 103 years old, who passed just a week ago in my own hometown of 
Houston, Texas.
  I am honored to say that she was an educator all of her life, a 
school teacher. She, in essence, set the standard for our famous Jack 
Yates High School and Phillis Wheatley High School. Phillis Wheatley 
High School was the school that Congressman Mickey Leland graduated 
from and Congresswoman Barbara Jordan.
  Hazel Hainesworth Young was a magnificent soul, someone who nurtured 
the leaders of today, who was the dean of girls at Wheatley High 
School, whose daughter, Maryann Young, followed in her footsteps as a 
teacher. She was a Soror. She was a wonderful icon of Alpha Kappa Alpha 
Sorority. But she was a public citizen.
  Her brother, of course, part of the, if you will, the intelligentsia 
and the excellence of legal prominence in the civil rights movement, 
but she brought about the civil rights movement by teaching to young 
Negro children--yes, Negro children--the opportunity to go forth and to 
shoot for the stars. There were no barriers to her teaching.
  She was honored in her lifetime because so many were guided and 
inspired by this wonderful, beautiful woman. I had the chance to be 
mentored by her, and I will go home to honor her, but she is honored 
today on the floor of the House. What a wonderful woman. Hazel 
Hainesworth Young, 103. She passed, but she will live on forever.

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