IV 
116TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. RES. 154 
Honoring and praising the National Association for the Advancement of 
Colored People on the occasion of its 110th anniversary. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
FEBRUARY 27, 2019 
Mr. GREEN of Texas (for himself, Mrs. WATSON COLEMAN, Mr. MEEKS, Mr. 
THOMPSON of Mississippi, Mr. COHEN, Mr. HIGGINS of New York, Mr. 
JOHNSON of Georgia, Mr. CLAY, Ms. JACKSON LEE, Mr. HORSFORD, Ms. 
NORTON, Ms. CLARKE of New York, Ms. LEE of California, Mr. MCNER-
NEY, Mr. HASTINGS, Ms. JOHNSON of Texas, Ms. CASTOR of Florida, 
Mrs. BEATTY, Mr. KHANNA, Ms. SCHAKOWSKY, Mr. YOUNG, Ms. 
HAALAND, Mr. SMITH of Washington, Ms. OCASIO-CORTEZ, Ms. BLUNT 
ROCHESTER, Ms. WILSON of Florida, Mr. NADLER, Ms. PLASKETT, Mr. 
DAVID SCOTT of Georgia, Mr. LAWSON of Florida, Mr. DANNY K. DAVIS 
of Illinois, Mr. CUMMINGS, Ms. PRESSLEY, Mr. CASE, Mr. CARSON of In-
diana, Mr. BEYER, Mr. LEWIS, Ms. MOORE, Mrs. LAWRENCE, Mr. 
LOWENTHAL, Mr. CICILLINE, Mr. ALLRED, Mr. ESPAILLAT, Mr. RICH-
MOND, Mr. KENNEDY, Mr. SERRANO, Mr. SCOTT of Virginia, Mr. SOTO, 
Mr. NORCROSS, Mrs. MCBATH, Ms. ADAMS, Ms. BASS, Mr. BISHOP of 
Georgia, Mr. BUTTERFIELD, Mr. CLEAVER, Mr. CLYBURN, Ms. FUDGE, 
Mr. JEFFRIES, Ms. SEWELL of Alabama, Mr. VEASEY, and Ms. WATERS) 
submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the Committee 
on the Judiciary 
RESOLUTION 
Honoring and praising the National Association for the Ad-
vancement of Colored People on the occasion of its 110th 
anniversary. 
Whereas the National Association for the Advancement of 
Colored People (NAACP), originally known as the Na-
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tional Negro Committee, was founded in New York City 
on February 12, 1909, the centennial of Abraham Lin-
coln’s birth, by a multiracial, multiethnic, multireligious, 
group of activists who met in a national conference to 
discuss the civil and political rights of African Americans; 
Whereas the multiracial founders of the NAACP were a dis-
tinguished group of leaders in the struggle for human 
rights, including Ida Wells-Barnett, W.E.B. DuBois, 
Henry Moscowitz, Mary White Ovington, Oswald Garri-
son Villard, and William English Walling; 
Whereas the NAACP is the oldest, largest, and most widely- 
recognized grassroots based civil rights organization in 
the United States; 
Whereas the NAACP has active membership units in all 50 
States, including State conferences of branches and local 
branches as well as branches in prisons and chapters on 
college and high school campuses throughout our Nation 
and branches on military bases in Italy, Germany, Korea, 
and Japan; 
Whereas the NAACP National Headquarters is located in 
Baltimore, Maryland; 
Whereas the mission of the NAACP is to ensure the political, 
educational, social, and economic rights of all persons 
and to eliminate racial hatred and racial discrimination; 
Whereas the NAACP is committed to achieving its goals 
through nonviolence including negotiation, litigation, and 
protestation; 
Whereas the NAACP advances its mission through reliance 
upon peaceful protest, the petition, the ballot, and the 
courts, and has been persistent in the use of legal and 
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moral persuasion, even in the face of overt and violent ra-
cial hostility; 
Whereas the NAACP has used political pressure, marches, 
demonstrations, and effective lobbying to serve as the 
voice, as well as the shield, for minorities in the United 
States; 
Whereas after years of fighting segregation in public schools, 
the NAACP, under the leadership of Special Counsel 
Thurgood Marshall, won one of its greatest legal victories 
in the Supreme Court’s decision in Brown v. Board of 
Education, 347 U.S. 483 (1954); 
Whereas, in 1955, NAACP member Rosa Parks was arrested 
and fined for refusing to give up her seat on a segregated 
bus in Montgomery, Alabama, an act of courage that 
would serve as the catalyst for the largest grassroots civil 
rights movement in the history of the United States; 
Whereas the NAACP was prominent in lobbying for the pas-
sage of the Civil Rights Acts of 1957, 1960, 1964, and 
1991; the Voting Rights Act of 1965; the 1993 Motor- 
Voter Act; the 2002 Help America Vote Act; the Fannie 
Lou Hamer, Rosa Parks, Coretta Scott King, Ce´sar E. 
Cha´vez, Barbara C. Jordan, William C. Vela´squez, and 
Dr. Hector P. Garcia Voting Rights Act Reauthorization 
and Amendments Act of 2006; and the Fair Housing 
Act, laws that ensured Government protection for legal 
victories achieved; 
Whereas, in 2005, the NAACP launched the Disaster Relief 
Fund to help hurricane survivors in Louisiana, Mis-
sissippi, Texas, Florida, and Alabama to rebuild their 
lives; 
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Whereas, in the 110th Congress, the NAACP was prominent 
in lobbying for the passage of H. Res. 826, a resolution 
with resolving clauses that express that the hanging of 
nooses is a horrible act when used for the purpose of in-
timidation, that under certain circumstances such an act 
can be criminal, and that such acts should be inves-
tigated thoroughly by Federal authorities and any crimi-
nal violations arising from such acts should be vigorously 
prosecuted; 
Whereas, in 2008, the NAACP vigorously supported the pas-
sage of the Emmett Till Unsolved Civil Rights Crime Act 
of 2007, a law that puts additional Federal resources 
into solving the heinous crimes that occurred in the early 
days of the civil rights struggle that remain unsolved and 
bringing those who perpetrated such crimes to justice; 
Whereas, on July 16, 2009, the NAACP celebrated its cen-
tennial anniversary in New York City, highlighting an ex-
traordinary century of Bold Dreams, Big Victories with 
a historic address from the first African-American Presi-
dent of the United States, Barack Obama; 
Whereas, in 2009, the NAACP was instrumental in the en-
actment of the Matthew Shepard–James Byrd, Jr., Hate 
Crimes Prevention Act, which greatly expanded the legal 
definition of a ‘‘hate crime’’ and encouraged increased co-
operation between Federal, State, and local authorities in 
the investigation and prosecution of crimes committed 
out of hate for a group of people; 
Whereas, in 2010, the NAACP, an advocate for sentencing 
reform, applauded the passage of the Fair Sentencing 
Act of 2010 (Public Law 111–220; Stat. 2372), a land-
mark piece of legislation that reduces the quantity of 
crack cocaine that triggers a mandatory minimum sen-
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tence for a Federal conviction of crack cocaine distribu-
tion from 100 times that of people convicted of distrib-
uting the drug in powdered form to 18 times that sen-
tence; 
Whereas throughout its existence, the NAACP has led the 
charge to defend the constitutional right to vote and to 
protect that right for all citizens of the United States, 
whether they be seniors, young voters, the poor, or from 
minority communities; 
Whereas, in 2013, the NAACP signed a historic Memo-
randum of Agreement with the Federal Emergency Man-
agement Agency (FEMA) to put mechanisms in place to 
ensure that the needs of underrepresented communities 
are more fully integrated into future plans for disaster 
preparedness; 
Whereas, in 2014, the NAACP was a leader in the effort to 
strengthen the Voting Rights Act and protect the prin-
ciple of ‘‘one person, one vote’’; 
Whereas, in 2014, the NAACP released its groundbreaking 
report ‘‘Born Suspect’’ on racial profiling by law enforce-
ment in the United States, which highlighted the problem 
of racial profiling experienced by individuals of color and 
communities of color; 
Whereas, in 2016, the NAACP led the charge in raising 
awareness about and challenging voter suppression laws 
in Federal court across the Nation; and 
Whereas, in 2017, the NAACP board unanimously elected 
Derrick Johnson as President and CEO as the organiza-
tion re-envisions itself to take on a tumultuous and con-
tentious social and political climate: Now, therefore, be it 
Resolved, 
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