In 1987 the Charlotte Hawkins Brown Memorial opened as a state historic site in North Carolina and is the only one to honor an African American.

This school would become the Alice Palmer Memorial Institute.

Mr. Chairman, the effect of this amendment would be to strike the provision in the bill which provides for a death penalty for drug kingpins. I am an opponent of the death penalty, but that is not what this argument is about. I would say…

In conclusion I would simply say that we have a death penalty, we have added a number of additional death penalty provisions. There ought to, at least, be standards for evaluating when the death penalty will apply. If we do not have…

Mr. Chairman, I would point out the inconsistency of my colleague's argument. Typically, he is the very person in this body who is talking against the delegation of authority that we should be exercising to the executive branch. There is…

I have been on the Hill all day, and I have yet to see a black Member of Congress. And I just wanted to see and talk to one. It reminded me of the importance of minority representation again in this body, against the backdrop that Monday…

I stand here tonight in the shadow of a lot of history, part of which I have already alluded to, as only one of two black Representatives from North Carolina in this century. Recalling the shadow cast by George H. White, the last…

I stand here as one of two African-American Members of Congress from the State of North Carolina, the first African-American Members of Congress elected from the State of North Carolina in this century.

I rise in support of the Black Caucus budget. Mr. Chairman, I rise in support of the CBC's budget resolution. As a member of the Subcommittee on Housing and Urban Development, I want to speak specifically about this budget's effect on…

as an individual I condemn the statements which are the subject of this resolution. There may be no individual in this body who has spent a greater percentage of his life fighting racism and sexism in this country. I oppose this resolution…