IV 
114TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. CON. RES. 18 
Expressing the sense of Congress that the United States Postal Service 
should issue a commemorative postage stamp honoring civil rights work-
ers Andrew Goodman, James Chaney, and Michael Schwerner, and the 
‘‘Freedom Summer’’ of 1964, and that the Citizens’ Stamp Advisory 
Committee should recommend to the Postmaster General that such a 
stamp be issued. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
FEBRUARY 24, 2015 
Mr. DAVID SCOTT of Georgia (for himself, Ms. ESTY, Mr. BISHOP of Georgia, 
Mr. ELLISON, Ms. MOORE, Ms. BROWN of Florida, Mr. HASTINGS, Mr. 
CARSON of Indiana, Ms. NORTON, Mr. GRIJALVA, Ms. CHU of California, 
Mr. MEEKS, Ms. PLASKETT, Mr. MCGOVERN, Ms. CLARKE of New York, 
Mr. RUSH, Mr. FATTAH, Mr. JEFFRIES, Ms. MENG, Ms. LEE, Mr. 
COURTNEY, Ms. WILSON of Florida, Mr. RANGEL, Ms. ADAMS, and Mr. 
SEAN PATRICK MALONEY of New York) submitted the following concur-
rent resolution; which was referred to the Committee on Oversight and 
Government Reform 
CONCURRENT RESOLUTION 
Expressing the sense of Congress that the United States 
Postal Service should issue a commemorative postage 
stamp honoring civil rights workers Andrew Goodman, 
James Chaney, and Michael Schwerner, and the ‘‘Free-
dom Summer’’ of 1964, and that the Citizens’ Stamp 
Advisory Committee should recommend to the Post-
master General that such a stamp be issued. 
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•HCON 18 IH 
Whereas ‘‘Freedom Summer’’ was a campaign in Mississippi 
to register African-American voters during the summer of 
1964; 
Whereas in 1964, most Black voters were disenfranchised by 
law or practice in Mississippi; 
Whereas this voting rights initiative was led by the Student 
Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), with the 
support of the Council of Federated Organizations 
(COFO), which included the National Association for the 
Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), the Congress 
of Racial Equality (CORE), and the Southern Christian 
Leadership Conference (SCLC); 
Whereas thousands of students and activists participated in 
two week orientation sessions in preparation for the voter 
registration drive in Mississippi; 
Whereas in 1962, at 6.7 percent of the State’s Black popu-
lation, Mississippi had one of the lowest percentages of 
Black registered voters in the country; 
Whereas three civil rights volunteers lost their lives in their 
attempts to secure voting rights for Blacks; 
Whereas Andrew Goodman was a White 20-year-old anthro-
pology major from Queens College who volunteered for 
the ‘‘Freedom Summer’’ project; 
Whereas James Chaney was a 21-year-old African-American 
from Meridian, Mississippi, who became a civil rights ac-
tivist, joining the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) in 
1963 to work on voter registration and education; 
Whereas Michael ‘‘Mickey’’ Schwerner was a 24-year-old 
White man from Brooklyn, New York, who was a CORE 
field secretary in Mississippi and a veteran of the civil 
rights movement; 
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•HCON 18 IH 
Whereas on the morning of June 21, 1964, the three men left 
the CORE office in Meridian, Mississippi, and set out for 
Longdale, Mississippi, where they were to investigate the 
recent burning of the Mount Zion Methodist Church, a 
Black church that had been functioning as a Freedom 
School for education and voter registration; 
Whereas the three civil rights workers were beaten, shot, and 
killed by members of the Ku Klux Klan; 
Whereas the national uproar in response to these brave men’s 
deaths helped raise the political capital necessary to bring 
about passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965; and 
Whereas Andrew Goodman, James Chaney, and Michael 
Schwerner’s story will be told to millions of Americans 
and their bravery will continue to inspire generations to 
come through the issuance of a commemorative postage 
stamp: Now, therefore, be it 
Resolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate 
concurring), That it is the sense of Congress that— 
(1) a commemorative postage stamp should be 
issued by the United States Postal Service honoring 
civil rights workers Andrew Goodman, James 
Chaney, and Michael Schwerner, and the 50th anni-
versary of ‘‘Freedom Summer’’ of 1964; 
(2) the stamp honoring these three men should 
be based upon the Congress of Racial Equality 
(CORE) poster from 1964, which was created by 
Danny Lyon, a prominent photographer of the Civil 
Rights movement; and 
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(3) the Citizens’ Stamp Advisory Committee 
should recommend to the Postmaster General that 
such a stamp be issued. 
Æ 
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