Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, I move to suspend the rules and agree to the resolution (H. Res. 1022) honoring the life and sacrifice of Medgar Evers and congratulating the United States Navy for naming a supply ship after Medgar Evers. The Clerk read the title of the resolution. The text of the resolution is as follows: H. Res. 1022 Whereas Medgar Evers was born on July 2, 1925, in Decatur, Mississippi; Whereas Mr. Evers was hired by Dr. Theodore Roosevelt Mason Howard to sell insurance for the Magnolia Mutual Life Insurance Company; Whereas Mr. Evers was inducted into United States Army in 1943 and fought in the Battle of Normandy; Whereas Dr. Howard, as President of the Regional Council of Negro Leadership, helped to introduce Mr. Evers to civil rights activism; Whereas Mr. Evers applied to the then-segregated University of Mississippi School of Law in February 1954; Whereas Mr. Evers' application was rejected resulting in a National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) campaign to desegregate the school; Whereas Mr. Evers was hired as a field secretary for the NAACP; Whereas Mr. Evers was the target of a number of death threats as a result of his activism; Whereas, on May 28, 1963, a Molotov cocktail was thrown into the carport of Mr. Evers's home and five days before his death Mr. Evers was assaulted by a car outside of an NAACP office; Whereas Mr.…”