IV 
117TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. CON. RES. 13 
Recognizing the difficult challenges Black veterans faced when returning 
home after serving in the Armed Forces, their heroic military sacrifices, 
and their patriotism in fighting for equal rights and for the dignity 
of a people and a Nation. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
FEBRUARY 1, 2021 
Mrs. BEATTY (for herself, Mr. COHEN, Ms. MOORE of Wisconsin, Mr. MEEKS, 
Ms. LEE of California, Ms. CASTOR of Florida, Ms. JOHNSON of Texas, 
Mr. HORSFORD, Mr. JONES, Mr. ESPAILLAT, Mr. HIGGINS of New York, 
Ms. WILSON of Florida, Ms. ADAMS, Mr. CARSON, Mr. BROWN, Ms. 
PRESSLEY, Mrs. LAWRENCE, Mr. SOTO, Mr. DAVID SCOTT of Georgia, 
Ms. WASSERMAN SCHULTZ, Mr. PAYNE, Mr. EVANS, Mr. CLEAVER, Mr. 
VELA, Ms. SCHAKOWSKY, Mr. COOPER, Mr. LARSON of Connecticut, Ms. 
BLUNT ROCHESTER, Ms. ROYBAL-ALLARD, Ms. STRICKLAND, Ms. WIL-
LIAMS of Georgia, Mr. LYNCH, Mr. TORRES of New York, Mr. BISHOP 
of Georgia, Ms. JACKSON LEE, Ms. SEWELL, Ms. CLARKE of New York, 
Mr. JOHNSON of Georgia, Mr. LAWSON of Florida, Mrs. LURIA, Mr. 
LOWENTHAL, Mr. RUSH, and Mr. MCGOVERN) submitted the following 
concurrent resolution; which was referred to the Committee on Veterans’ 
Affairs 
CONCURRENT RESOLUTION 
Recognizing the difficult challenges Black veterans faced 
when returning home after serving in the Armed Forces, 
their heroic military sacrifices, and their patriotism in 
fighting for equal rights and for the dignity of a people 
and a Nation. 
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Whereas there has been no war fought by or within the 
United States in which Blacks did not participate, includ-
ing the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, the War of 
1812, the Spanish American War, World Wars I and II, 
the Korean War, the Vietnam War, the Gulf War, Oper-
ation Enduring Freedom, and Operation Iraqi Freedom; 
Whereas Frederick Douglass voiced his opinion in one of his 
autobiographies, ‘‘Life and Times of Frederick Doug-
lass’’, writing, ‘‘I . . . urged every man who could, to en-
list; to get an eagle on his button, a musket on his shoul-
der, the star-spangled banner over his head’’, later re-
marking that ‘‘there is no power on Earth which can 
deny that he has earned the right to citizenship in the 
United States.’’; 
Whereas during the Civil War, Black soldiers, commonly re-
ferred to as the United States Colored Troops, were 
treated as second-class citizens, the health care and hos-
pitals available to them were substandard, and they often 
died from neglect of services that were supposed to be ad-
ministered by medical personnel; 
Whereas Dr. W.E.B. DuBois and William Monroe Trotter, 
members of the first generation of freedom’s children, 
founded the Niagara Movement in 1905; 
Whereas in his book, ‘‘Black Reconstruction in America’’, 
published in 1935, DuBois wrote that ‘‘[n]othing else 
made Negro citizenship conceivable, but the record of the 
Negro soldier as a fighter.’’; 
Whereas the 369th Infantry, known as the Harlem Hell- 
fighters, fought the Germans during World War I as part 
of the French Army and served the longest stretch in 
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combat, 191 days without replacement, without losing a 
foot of ground or a man as prisoner; 
Whereas at the end of the service of the 369th Infantry, the 
entire regiment received the Croix de Guerre, which was 
France’s highest military honor, from a grateful French 
nation; 
Whereas Alain Locke, the first Black Rhodes Scholar, wrote 
in 1925 about a ‘‘New Negro’’ who had returned from 
battle with a bold new spirit that helped spark a new 
mood in the Black community; 
Whereas in 1917, Charles Hamilton Houston encountered 
racism after entering World War I as a commissioned 
first lieutenant in the segregated 17th Provisional Train-
ing Regiment, later writing that ‘‘I made up my mind 
that if I got through this war I would study law and use 
my time fighting for men who could not strike back.’’; 
Whereas Dorie Miller, a messman attendant in the Navy, was 
catapulted to national hero status and an icon to genera-
tions, after displaying heroism on board the USS West 
Virginia during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on 
December 7, 1941; 
Whereas before becoming a famous baseball player, Jackie 
Robinson was court-martialed in the Army for refusing to 
sit in the back of the bus in 1944, and when he was later 
acquitted, he wrote that ‘‘[i]t was a small victory, for I 
had learned that I was in two wars, one against the for-
eign enemy, the other against prejudice at home.’’; 
Whereas the famed Tuskegee Airmen, a group of Black pi-
lots, flew with distinction during World War II under the 
command of Captain Benjamin O. Davis, Jr., the highly 
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