Melvin Watt: “I would like to do three short things, given the lateness of the hour. First of all, I want to go back to a special…”

“I would like to do three short things, given the lateness of the hour. First of all, I want to go back to a special order or an insertion that I did in last year's African-American history special order and pay tribute to a special woman. Apparently I was a year ahead of my time because the theme last year was not necessarily African-American women, but I did attribute to a special African-American woman who has had a special impact in my congressional district in North Carolina. Her name was Charlotte Hawkins Brown, who was the founder of the Palmer Memorial Institute, which is located in Sedalia, NC. At the age of 18, Ms. Charlotte Hawkins at that time accepted a teaching position in a school called the American Missionary Association, near Greensboro to teach at the Bethany Institute near Greensboro.”