[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 160 (2014), Part 6]
[House]
[Page 8817]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                   A TRIBUTE TO REVEREND FRANK McRAE

  (Mr. COHEN asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. COHEN. Mr. Speaker, this past week, the city of Memphis lost one 
of its greatest sons and leaders, Reverend Frank McRae.
  Reverend McRae was a Memphian who took urban ministry to a new 
position in the city of Memphis. Before Dr. King was assassinated April 
4, 1968, he marched with the sanitation workers and Dr. King. After Dr. 
King was assassinated, he led a group of ministers to city hall to urge 
the mayor to settle the strife.
  He knew that the church needed to do good deeds and help people in a 
changing South and a changing America, and he helped found Friends for 
Life that dealt with people with HIV and AIDS. He helped found the 
Memphis Interfaith Association that provided food and clothing to 
people in need. And he turned his church into a place where they had 
soup kitchens and pantries, rather than a church of the most blessed 
and most privileged. He was a great man who made Memphis the ``city of 
good abode,'' as it is well known.
  He will be greatly missed. He leaves his wife, two children, and 
three stepchildren. I am fortunate to have known Frank McRae, and 
Memphis is fortunate he came our way.

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