[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 162 (2016), Part 10]
[House]
[Page 13899]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




        NATIONAL CIVIL RIGHTS MUSEUM CELEBRATES 25TH ANNIVERSARY

  (Mr. COHEN asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. COHEN. Mr. Speaker, today marks the 25th anniversary of the 
opening of the National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis, Tennessee. The 
National Civil Rights Museum is located at the former Lorraine Motel, 
the site of the tragic assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
  From that horrific incident rose from the ashes a phoenix in a 
wonderful story of the efforts and the achievements of many--both Black 
and White--to achieve a more perfect union in the civil rights for 
people in this country.
  Mr. Speaker, I urge everybody who has a chance to go to Memphis and 
tour the civil rights museum and pay tribute to the civil rights 
soldiers who made America more what it was intended to be and make it a 
more perfect union.

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