I 
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 Ad-
ministration, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, 
in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the juris-
diction 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. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. FINDINGS. 
Congress finds the following: 
(1) Carrie Beatrice ‘‘Mudear’’ Sager was born 
on September 5, 1913 in Autauga County, Alabama 
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to the late Mr. James Hardy and Mrs. Laura 
Hardy. 
(2) She was a foot soldier who marched with 
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in Selma, Alabama in 
1963. Ms. Sager was dedicated to fighting for racial 
and social justice, she risked her own life countless 
times being a voice for others. Her commitment is 
demonstrated through her years of bravery and ac-
tivism. 
(3) Ms. Sager was known for organizing the 
well-known Children’s March of May 2, 1963 led by 
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. This protest led to hun-
dreds of students being arrested and taken to jail in 
paddy wagons and school buses. 
(4) She was a victim of police brutality and ex-
perienced the brute force of hoses and dogs as law 
enforcement used them as weapons against her and 
peaceful protestors during the Southern Christian 
Leadership Conference’s Birmingham Campaign. 
(5) She was a fearless woman who stood up to 
the KKK by picketing and boycotting white busi-
nesses in Bessemer and Birmingham Alabama, de-
manding equal treatment of Black people across this 
nation. 
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(6) She demonstrated heroism as she marched 
the infamous Edmund Pettus Bridge on Bloody 
Sunday, March 7th, 1965. This was a day in which 
police attacked Civil Rights activists with tear gas, 
billy clubs, and horses as demonstrators were headed 
to the State Capitol in Montgomery, Alabama. 
(7) Ms. Sager was a woman of God and an ac-
tive member of Starlight Missionary Baptist Church, 
where she was named ‘‘Mother of the Church’’. 
(8) Carrie Beatrice ‘‘Mudear’’ Sager passed 
away November 20, 2014 at the age of 101. She will 
be remembered for her tenacity and unwavering 
dedication to fighting for human rights and ensuring 
equality and peace across this nation. 
(9) She was loved and cherished by many and 
her legacy will live on through her family. She left 
this earth with five children: Sam Sager, Jr., Will 
Sager, Lurlean Sager Burnette, Florabell Sager 
McQueen, and Mary Sager Davis. Mudear’s ten 
grandchildren are as follows: Cora Jean Douglass, 
Martha Jean McQueen, Will Sager Jr., Valerie 
Sager Seals, Veronica Sager Seals, Vernon T. Sager 
Sr., Vayonna L. Sager, Loretta Lusane Philips, 
Clarence Lusane, and Tanya Davis McCullough. 
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SEC. 2. CONGRESSIONAL GOLD MEDAL. 
(a) PRESENTATION AUTHORIZATION.—The Speaker 
of the House of Representatives and the President pro 
tempore of the Senate shall make appropriate arrange-
ments for the presentation, on behalf of the Congress, of 
a gold medal of appropriate design to the Carrie Beatrice 
‘‘Mudear’’ Sager, in recognition of her service to her com-
munity and nation, for peace, racial justice, and human 
rights. 
(b) DESIGN AND STRIKING.—For the purposes of the 
award referred to in subsection (a), the Secretary of the 
Treasury (hereafter in this Act referred to as the ‘‘Sec-
retary’’) shall strike a gold medal with suitable emblems, 
devices, and inscriptions, to be determined by the Sec-
retary. 
(c) SMITHSONIAN
INSTITUTION.—Following the 
award of the gold medal under subsection (a), the gold 
medal shall be given to the Smithsonian Institution and 
the medal will be available for display at the National Mu-
seum of African American History and Culture. 
SEC. 3. DUPLICATE MEDALS. 
The Secretary may strike and sell duplicates in 
bronze of the gold medal struck pursuant to section 2 
under such regulations as the Secretary may prescribe, at 
a price sufficient to cover the cost thereof, including labor, 
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materials, dies, use of machinery, and overhead expenses, 
and the cost of the gold medal. 
SEC. 4. NATIONAL MEDALS. 
Medals struck pursuant to this Act are national med-
als for the purposes of chapter 51 of title 31, United 
States Code. 
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