Yvette Clarke: “I thank the gentlelady from Ohio (Mrs. Beatty) for extending this time to me, and I want to also thank the gentlelady…”

“I thank the gentlelady from Ohio (Mrs. Beatty) for extending this time to me, and I want to also thank the gentlelady from Illinois (Ms. Kelly) and the gentleman from New Jersey (Mr. Payne). Mr. Speaker, I want to thank my colleagues in the Congressional Black Caucus for hosting this evening's Special Order and this extension this evening. Today I proudly rise to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the historic events of the nonviolent protests that took place in Selma, Alabama, and to recognize their importance in igniting and fueling the civil rights movement that brought an end to the practice of Jim Crow racial segregation by law in America and voting rights legislation that guaranteed every American citizen the right to vote. It is a privilege to represent the Ninth District of New York in offering tribute to the historic people of conscience that walked the Edmund Pettus Bridge on March 7, 1965, known as Bloody Sunday. The march from Selma to Montgomery in 1965 included more than 600 women and men who walked from the historic Brown Chapel AME Church to the State capital of Alabama. They marched for the right to vote, the freedom and human dignity that had been denied to them. They marched to end the evil practice of segregation and the violent terrorism to which they were subjected on an everyday basis, to remove from our society the poison of racism and racial discrimination.…”