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111TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION H. RES. 1022 

Honoring the life and sacrifice of Medgar Evers and congratulating the 

United States Navy for naming a supply ship after Medgar Evers. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

JANUARY 20, 2010 

Mr. JOHNSON of Georgia (for himself, Mr. BISHOP of Georgia, Ms. 

BORDALLO, Mr. CARSON of Indiana, Mrs. CHRISTENSEN, Ms. CLARKE, 

Mr. CLEAVER, Mr. HASTINGS of Florida, Mr. TOWNS, Mr. FILNER, Ms. 

CORRINE BROWN of Florida, Mr. LAMBORN, Mr. MEEKS of New York, 

Mr. CONYERS, Mr. PAYNE, Mr. THOMPSON of Mississippi, Mr. DAVIS of 

Illinois, Mr. SESTAK, Ms. LEE of California, Mr. BUTTERFIELD, Mr. 

SCOTT of Virginia, Mr. JACKSON of Illinois, Ms. MOORE of Wisconsin, 

Ms. RICHARDSON, Mr. CUMMINGS, Ms. WATSON, Mr. BRADY of Pennsylvania, Mr. COHEN, Ms. EDWARDS of Maryland, Mr. GUTIERREZ, Mr. 

MASSA, Mr. AL GREEN of Texas, Ms. NORTON, Mr. CLAY, Mr. RANGEL, 

Ms. FUDGE, Mr. RUSH, Mr. LEWIS of Georgia, Mr. MEEK of Florida, 

Mr. DAVIS of Alabama, Ms. CHU, Ms. JACKSON LEE of Texas, Mr. 

FATTAH, Mr. MARSHALL, Mr. SCOTT of Georgia, Mr. CLYBURN, Ms. 

EDDIE BERNICE JOHNSON of Texas, Mr. WATT, Ms. KILPATRICK of 

Michigan, and Ms. WATERS) submitted the following resolution; which 

was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the 

Committee on Armed Services, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions 

as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned 

RESOLUTION 

Honoring the life and sacrifice of Medgar Evers and congratulating the United States Navy for naming a supply 

ship after Medgar Evers. 


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•HRES 1022 IH 

Whereas Medgar Evers was born on July 2, 1925, in Decatur, Mississippi; 

Whereas Mr. Evers was hired by Dr. Theodore Roosevelt 

Mason Howard to sell insurance for the Magnolia Mutual 

Life Insurance Company; 

Whereas Mr. Evers was inducted into United States Army in 

1943 and fought in the Battle of Normandy; 

Whereas Dr. Howard, as President of the Regional Council 

of Negro Leadership, helped to introduce Mr. Evers to 

civil rights activism; 

Whereas Mr. Evers applied to the then-segregated University 

of Mississippi School of Law in February 1954; 

Whereas Mr. Evers’ application was rejected resulting in a 

National Association for the Advancement of Colored 

People (NAACP) campaign to desegregate the school; 

Whereas Mr. Evers was hired as a field secretary for the 

NAACP; 

Whereas Mr. Evers was the target of a number of death 

threats as a result of his activism; 

Whereas, on May 28, 1963, a Molotov cocktail was thrown 

into the carport of Mr. Evers’s home and five days before 

his death Mr. Evers was assaulted by a car outside of an 

NAACP office; 

Whereas Mr. Evers was assassinated in the driveway of his 

home in Jackson after returning from a meeting with 

NAACP lawyers on June 12, 1963; 

Whereas this assassination occurred just hours after President John F. Kennedy’s speech on national television in 

support of civil rights; 


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•HRES 1022 IH 

Whereas the death of Mr. Evers helped to prompt President 

John F. Kennedy to ask Congress for a comprehensive 

civil rights bill; 

Whereas that bill, the Civil Rights Act of 1964, was signed 

into law by President Lyndon Johnson; 

Whereas Mr. Evers’ assassination has been memorialized in 

numerous popular songs, movies, and written pieces; 

Whereas in 1969, Medgar Evers College was established in 

Brooklyn, New York, as part of the City University of 

New York; 

Whereas, on June 28, 1992, the city of Jackson, Mississippi 

erected a statue in honor of Mr. Evers; 

Whereas in December 2004, the Jackson City Council 

changed the name of the city’s airport to Jackson-Evers 

International Airport; and 

Whereas, on October 9, 2009, Secretary of the Navy Ray 

Mabus announced that the United States Naval Ship 

(USNS) Medgar Evers (T–AKE–13), a Lewis and Clarkclass dry cargo ship, will be named after Mr. Evers: Now, 

therefore, be it 

1 Resolved, That the House of Representatives— 

2 (1) honors the life and sacrifice of Medgar 

3 Evers; 

4 (2) recognizes the important role Mr. Evers 

5 played in securing civil rights for all people in the 

6 United States; and 


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•HRES 1022 IH 

1 (3) congratulates the United States Navy for 

2 honoring Medgar Evers by naming the United 

3 States Naval Ship Medgar Evers after him. 

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