Jay Dickey: “Absolutely. I am from Pine Bluff, Arkansas. I grew up when Prexie Davis was the president of Arkansas A&M, and I cannot…”

“Absolutely. I am from Pine Bluff, Arkansas. I grew up when Prexie Davis was the president of Arkansas A&M, and I cannot say I know as much about it from the inside as the gentleman from Illinois (Mr. Davis), who is one of their distinguished alumnus; but I do know that I saw it from the outside. I know that what that school did under Dr. Lawrence A. Davis was offer scholarships to people who could not even afford to get transportation to come to school. Some of those people learned how to learn at Arkansas A&M at Pine Bluff. Then to advance forward, here I am in Congress and I am on a committee that the gentleman from Maryland (Mr. Hoyer) and I serve on. We are midgets compared to Louis Stokes in this area, but we have been striving to add money to HBCUs because we want to present opportunities to people who want to learn and who care. TRIO is a part of this plan, and I have gotten a lot of encouragements from Dr. Davis, Jr., about TRIO and we are doing our job there so that we can prepare people to come to school in places like UAPB and HBCUs all over the country. It is a great privilege for me to be a part of it, and I am going to continue on this committee striving hard to bring as much money as we can in a reasonable fashion for the benefit of the students who go to HBCUs all over the United States, but particularly at Pine Bluff, Arkansas.”