[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 156 (2010), Part 4]
[House]
[Pages 5522-5523]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                    HONORING LENORA ``DOLL'' CARTER

  (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, it is not often that you come 
to the floor of the House with joy and with sadness. And it is with 
both that I stand to honor a fallen friend, Lenora ``Doll'' Carter, a 
champion of a woman, and of course someone who led in our community.
  Doll Carter was the publisher of the Forward Times newspaper in 
Houston, Texas. She and her husband Julius founded that newspaper in 
1960, reporting on all of the civil rights matters, the assassination 
of Dr. King, the 1964 Civil Rights Act, and 1965 Voting Rights Act. And 
then his untimely death in 1971 caused this young woman and young 
mother, the mother of Karen and Constance, to take up the helm of this 
great paper. This paper became the third most read newspaper in the 
southwest after two of our major papers in Houston, and this lady 
became the doll of all of us. Her name clearly was a name that we 
favored.

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  Lenora ``Doll'' Carter was born in Arizona. But as her good friend 
John Smith said, Doll was not only a friend toward the advancement of 
African American achievement, overall she personified distinctive 
grace, character, and style as a champion for the common good. She was 
also my friend. She passed away this past Saturday. We honor her, we 
salute her. She is a great hero of America.
  Doll, we will miss you. May you rest in peace.

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