[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 160 (2014), Part 7]
[House]
[Pages 10509-10510]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                 THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF FREEDOM SUMMER

  (Mr. DEUTCH asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. DEUTCH. Mr. Speaker, this year we mark the 50th anniversary of 
the 1964 Freedom Summer, when hundreds of Americans traveled to 
Mississippi to fight discrimination and advance voting rights and 
equality under the law.
  Today I rise to recognize three Americans who gave their lives in 
that struggle: James Chaney, Michael Schwerner, and Andrew Goodman. On 
June 21, 1964, these three activists--one African American and two 
Jewish--were kidnapped and murdered for working to register Black 
voters.
  Their lives, the lives of James Chaney, Michael Schwerner, and Andrew 
Goodman, were claimed by hate, yet their faith in equality and justice 
and the right to vote lives on today through the historic Black-Jewish 
alliance born out of the civil rights movement.

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  I proudly support honoring these three activists with a Congressional 
Gold Medal and would like to thank the Foundation for Ethnic 
Understanding for championing this cause.
  For 25 years, the foundation has advanced the values shared by the 
Jewish and African American communities, including tolerance, equal 
rights, and justice. As a Jewish American, it is an honor to fight for 
these values here in Congress today and every day.

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