IV 
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 Pennsyl-
vania, 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 deter-
mined 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 con-
gratulating 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 Deca-
tur, 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 Presi-
dent 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 Clark- 
class dry cargo ship, will be named after Mr. Evers: Now, 
therefore, be it 
Resolved, That the House of Representatives— 
(1) honors the life and sacrifice of Medgar 
Evers; 
(2) recognizes the important role Mr. Evers 
played in securing civil rights for all people in the 
United States; and 
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(3) congratulates the United States Navy for 
honoring Medgar Evers by naming the United 
States Naval Ship Medgar Evers after him. 
Æ 
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