Congressman Al Green Introduces Resolutions to Recognize Black History Month and Honor the NAACP on its 107th Anniversary

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Washington, DC – February 3, 2016 – (RealEstateRama) — On Tuesday, February 2, 2016, Congressman Al Green (TX-09), a veteran civil rights advocate, introduced the Original National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) Resolution of 2016 and the Original Black History Month Resolution of 2016. The resolutions were introduced with 22 original co-sponsors.

Black History Month is celebrated annually in the United States in the month of February. This year the theme is ‘‘Hallowed Grounds: Sites of African American Memories.” Black History Month was originally established as Negro History Week in 1926 by Dr. Carter G. Woodson, an African-American author and scholar. Dr. Woodson worked tirelessly to highlight the contributions of African Americans to our nation’s history, establishing the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History in 1915.

“This resolution allows Members of Congress to once again reaffirm the importance of and story of African Americans in the development of our great nation,” Congressman Al Green said. “Specifically, this year we will recognize the history of our nation embedded in so many places that have become ‘hallowed grounds’—places such as the Edmund Pettus Bridge where marchers figuratively wrote the Voting Rights Act in their own blood, to the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church where four baby girls lost their lives in a bombing due to the odious racial prejudice of the time.”

Since the NAACP was founded on February 12, 1909, it has been committed to eliminating invidious discrimination. Its accomplishments include its prominence in lobbying for the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1957, 1960, and 1964, the Voting Rights Act of 1965, and the Fair Housing Act of 1968, laws which ensured government protection for legal victories. More recently, the NAACP has been a leader in the struggle to preserve and strengthen the Voting Rights Act as well as working to reform our criminal justice system.

“The NAACP is built on the collective courage of thousands of people of all races, nationalities, and faiths united in one premise: all people deserve equality of opportunity regardless of race, creed, color, age, sexuality, familial status, or religion,” Congressman Al Green said. “As someone who has served in the NAACP and worked closely with them as a Member of Congress, I have seen first-hand how instrumental the NAACP is in securing the rights of all Americans.”

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