Cleo Fields

The people taking part in this historic march are answering back, and history will remember that they did.

I intend to answer that call.

After a great deal of prayer and reflection, I have decided not to seek reelection, to Congress, in the 6th District or any other district in Louisiana,

I feel my calling to serve the people is better put to use back home than here in D.C., and I intend to answer that call.

Denying access, repeatedly and without explanation, does not just inconvenience a handful of volunteers. It weakens the public’s ability to hold our institutions accountable and erodes confidence that justice is being administered fairly…

It pushes us back to 60 years ago.

tonight I rise, as a 33-year- old retiring Member of this distinguished body, filled with thanks and appreciation. I would first, Mr. Speaker, like to thank each Member of this great and prestigious body. I have never served in a body with…

to that end, in 1965, President Johnson issued Executive order 11246, which required all employers with Federal contracts to file written affirmative action plans with the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs, giving a Federal…

African Americans were not the only group to have suffered at the hands of white male supremacy. White women and women in general did not gain the right to vote until the 19th amendment afforded them suffrage in 1920. Mexican Americans in…

academia is not immune to discrimination. A study of faculty hiring practices found that once a hiring goal was met, departments would stop seeking out people of color, pulling their ads from relevant publications, despite the number of…

College presidents have a responsibility. Most colleges, when I was going to school, we had what you call a convocation, and freshmen had freshmen seminars, something they had to attend every week. Every student had to attend convocation…

I include the following material for the Record: Appendix--Some Prominent HBUC Alumni Leaders of the Past Nobel Laureate Martin Luther King, Jr. (Morehouse), Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall (Lincoln and Howard), educators W.E.B…

Mr. Speaker, on September 23 of this year, historically black colleges and universities all across the country will celebrate Black College Day, and on that day many colleges across the country will recognize some of the great…

It is so simple now to register to vote. There are organizations like Rock the Vote, for example, who travel all across the country and have a 1-800 number where a student in a dormitory room can get on the phone and dial 1-800-register…

Knowledge and power. I cannot overemphasize how important this is. For the 23d, it is HBCU, historical black colleges and universities, but listen, every college students, irrespective of what college they attend, ought to register to…

Absolutely, and you know this whole voter registration among young people is really catching on. I do not know if you are familiar with the shows called the Tom Journal Morning Show. It is a show that is on every morning on many of the…

I often wonder today, had I not had the opportunity to attend Southern University and had the opportunity to be freshman class president and president of an entire student body and had to manage a budget in excess of $150,000 as a young…

You are a former student leader on your college campus. How did you and your colleagues encourage young people or get young people at North Carolina A&T registered to vote? Let us face it, there are a lot of students who are not from North…

I want to make sure I am doing it right. All I have to do if I go back to my office right now and I wanted to register to vote is pick up the phone and dial 1-800-REGISTER?

These dollars are the dollars for the interest subsidy. You have to spend money on the construction first in order to benefit from the dollars, the $5 billion, because the $5 billion is not, they are not construction dollars per se. They…

Absolutely, no question about it. The education caucus, as the gentleman knows, we have made it a point not to bash members, to make it a partisan issue, because education is not a partisan issue. It is a nonpartisan issue. Both sides of…

as the gentleman knows, if he is speaking of the $5 billion program, under the President's proposal, it would be paid for by the selling of the spectrums. So the $5 billion program is in fact paid for or will be paid for. An expanded…

I think we have to press that issue. I think we have to get real serious about the safety and soundness of our schools and the conditions of our schools for the interest of not only the students and the teachers but for the interest of…

It is like the unique bumper sticker that we have all seen in our travels, if you can read this, thank a teacher. You cannot put it any more pointedly than that. If you can read this, thank a teacher.