I want to thank my colleague, Representative Terri Sewell, for her leadership in this outstanding effort. Representative Sewell has quickly made her mark in this institution for her tireless devotion to duty and her thoughtful approach to legislating. I am proud to join her in this effort and urge all of my colleagues to support this legislation.
Share
More from Jim Clyburn
I am pleased to rise today to welcome to these Chambers and to this well a good friend and a personal, I will say, savior to a multitude of South Carolinians. Reverend Charles B. Jackson has been serving as pastor of Brookland Baptist…
I thought about that often stated mantra that Black history is really America's history, and it is. It came very forcefully to me the last 2 weeks as I watched things happening in St. Paul and Minneapolis: I thought about Selma and…
I saw a picture that concerned me [from] the rally. I didn’t see a single person that looks like me.
I am going to close with something a bit more general because I have been wrestling with this for the better part of the last 4 or 5 years. It is Martin Luther King, Jr.'s letter from the Birmingham City Jail. King, when he wrote that…
Other voices in this conversation
