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117TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. R. 323 

To award a Congressional Gold Medal to Carrie Beatrice ‘‘Mudear’’ Sager, 

in recognition of her service to her community and nation, for peace, 

racial justice, and human rights. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

JANUARY 15, 2021 

Ms. BASS introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee 

on Financial Services, and in addition to the Committee on House Administration, 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 

A BILL 

To award a Congressional Gold Medal to Carrie Beatrice 

‘‘Mudear’’ Sager, in recognition of her service to her 

community and nation, for peace, racial justice, and 

human rights. 

1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 

3 SECTION 1. FINDINGS. 

4 Congress finds the following: 

5 (1) Carrie Beatrice ‘‘Mudear’’ Sager was born 

6 on September 5, 1913 in Autauga County, Alabama 


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1 to the late Mr. James Hardy and Mrs. Laura 

2 Hardy. 

3 (2) She was a foot soldier who marched with 

4 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in Selma, Alabama in 

5 1963. Ms. Sager was dedicated to fighting for racial 

6 and social justice, she risked her own life countless 

7 times being a voice for others. Her commitment is 

8 demonstrated through her years of bravery and ac9 tivism. 

10 (3) Ms. Sager was known for organizing the 

11 well-known Children’s March of May 2, 1963 led by 

12 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. This protest led to hun13 dreds of students being arrested and taken to jail in 

14 paddy wagons and school buses. 

15 (4) She was a victim of police brutality and ex16 perienced the brute force of hoses and dogs as law 

17 enforcement used them as weapons against her and 

18 peaceful protestors during the Southern Christian 

19 Leadership Conference’s Birmingham Campaign. 

20 (5) She was a fearless woman who stood up to 

21 the KKK by picketing and boycotting white busi22 nesses in Bessemer and Birmingham Alabama, de23 manding equal treatment of Black people across this 

24 nation. 


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1 (6) She demonstrated heroism as she marched 

2 the infamous Edmund Pettus Bridge on Bloody 

3 Sunday, March 7th, 1965. This was a day in which 

4 police attacked Civil Rights activists with tear gas, 

5 billy clubs, and horses as demonstrators were headed 

6 to the State Capitol in Montgomery, Alabama. 

7 (7) Ms. Sager was a woman of God and an ac8 tive member of Starlight Missionary Baptist Church, 

9 where she was named ‘‘Mother of the Church’’. 

10 (8) Carrie Beatrice ‘‘Mudear’’ Sager passed 

11 away November 20, 2014 at the age of 101. She will 

12 be remembered for her tenacity and unwavering 

13 dedication to fighting for human rights and ensuring 

14 equality and peace across this nation. 

15 (9) She was loved and cherished by many and 

16 her legacy will live on through her family. She left 

17 this earth with five children: Sam Sager, Jr., Will 

18 Sager, Lurlean Sager Burnette, Florabell Sager 

19 McQueen, and Mary Sager Davis. Mudear’s ten 

20 grandchildren are as follows: Cora Jean Douglass, 

21 Martha Jean McQueen, Will Sager Jr., Valerie 

22 Sager Seals, Veronica Sager Seals, Vernon T. Sager 

23 Sr., Vayonna L. Sager, Loretta Lusane Philips, 

24 Clarence Lusane, and Tanya Davis McCullough. 


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1 SEC. 2. CONGRESSIONAL GOLD MEDAL. 

2 (a) PRESENTATION AUTHORIZATION.—The Speaker 

3 of the House of Representatives and the President pro 

4 tempore of the Senate shall make appropriate arrange5 ments for the presentation, on behalf of the Congress, of 

6 a gold medal of appropriate design to the Carrie Beatrice 

7 ‘‘Mudear’’ Sager, in recognition of her service to her com8 munity and nation, for peace, racial justice, and human 

9 rights. 

10 (b) DESIGN AND STRIKING.—For the purposes of the 

11 award referred to in subsection (a), the Secretary of the 

12 Treasury (hereafter in this Act referred to as the ‘‘Sec13 retary’’) shall strike a gold medal with suitable emblems, 

14 devices, and inscriptions, to be determined by the Sec15 retary. 

16 (c) SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION.—Following the 

17 award of the gold medal under subsection (a), the gold 

18 medal shall be given to the Smithsonian Institution and 

19 the medal will be available for display at the National Mu20 seum of African American History and Culture. 

21 SEC. 3. DUPLICATE MEDALS. 

22 The Secretary may strike and sell duplicates in 

23 bronze of the gold medal struck pursuant to section 2 

24 under such regulations as the Secretary may prescribe, at 

25 a price sufficient to cover the cost thereof, including labor, 


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1 materials, dies, use of machinery, and overhead expenses, 

2 and the cost of the gold medal. 

3 SEC. 4. NATIONAL MEDALS. 

4 Medals struck pursuant to this Act are national med5 als for the purposes of chapter 51 of title 31, United 

6 States Code. 

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