[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 160 (2014), Part 1]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Pages 542-543]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                          HONORING A.C. GARNER

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                        HON. BENNIE G. THOMPSON

                             of mississippi

                    in the house of representatives

                        Monday, January 13, 2014

  Mr. THOMPSON of Mississippi. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to honor a 
hardworking and self motivated man, Mr. A.C. Garner.
  Mr. Garner, a son of a sharecropper, was born in Grand Gulf, 
Claiborne County, Mississippi. He was reared on a plantation, educated 
in the public schools and later joined the United States Armed Forces. 
He received a Bachelor's Degree in Sociology from Alcorn State 
University, Alcorn, Mississippi.
  Mr. Garner is a veteran of the U.S. Navy where he was trained as a 
power plant operator. In 1958 he participated in Nuclear Testing of A 
and H bombs at Bikini Island. He has worked as a sales representative 
and also as an engineering inspector for public roads.
  Mr. Garner became President of the Claiborne County branch of the 
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People in 1980. In 
that same year he helped to carry a 13 year boycott case from Port 
Gibson, Claiborne County, Mississippi to the United States

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Supreme Court known as the ``Port Gibson Boycott''. He personally 
appeared before the United States Supreme Court as a guest of the court 
and the case was won in the NAACP's favor.
  In that same year of 1980, Mr. Garner was appointed by the Claiborne 
County Board of Supervisors as director of Emergency Management. At 
that time he started attending colleges and universities across the 
United States in order to be certified to help bring the one and only 
nuclear power plant in Mississippi on line by 1985.
  In 1994, Mr. Garner completed all courses and was certified by the 
Emergency Management Institute in Emmitsburg, MD.
  Mr. Garner is retired and is a small farmer in Port Gibson, 
Mississippi. He raises beef cattle. He serves as the President of the 
Black Farmers Association of Claiborne County. He is the President of 
the Claiborne County Port Commission and is a lifetime member of the 
NAACP.
  Mr. Garner is married to Charity Carpenter Garner and they have four 
children: Albert, Jr., Andra, TaWanda and Exzavian.
  Mr. Speaker, I ask my colleagues to join me in recognizing a dynamic 
man, Mr. A.C. Garner.

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