Title: Recognizing the significance of the Greensboro Four Sit-In.
Policy area: Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues

Summary:
Recognizes the contribution of the Greensboro Four to the civil rights movement and their significance as a catalyst for the mobilization of college students coalescing in the formation of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee.
Recognizes that ethnic and racial diversity of the United States enriches and strengthens the nation.
Encourages states to include the history and contributions of the Greensboro Four in their year-round educational curriculum.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Res. 100 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
H. RES. 100

      Recognizing the significance of the Greensboro Four Sit-In.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            February 7, 2017

 Mr. Budd (for himself, Ms. Adams, Mr. Jones, Mr. Walker, Mr. Meadows, 
 Mr. Butterfield, Mr. Hudson, Mr. Holding, Mr. McHenry, Ms. Foxx, Mr. 
   Rouzer, and Mr. Price of North Carolina) submitted the following 
 resolution; which was referred to the Committee on Education and the 
  Workforce, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, for a 
 period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for 
consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the 
                          committee concerned

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                               RESOLUTION


 
      Recognizing the significance of the Greensboro Four Sit-In.

Whereas Joseph Mcneil, Jibreel Khazan (formerly Ezell Blair, Jr.), Franklin 
        McCain, and David Richmond are the members of the Greensboro Four;
Whereas the Greensboro Four Sit-In was in response to the brutal killing of 14-
        year-old Emmett Till;
Whereas the Greensboro Four attended North Carolina Agricultural and Technical 
        State University;
Whereas the Greensboro Four were refused service at the Woolworth Lunch Counter 
        in Greensboro, North Carolina, on February 1, 1960;
Whereas the Greensboro Four ignited a movement to challenge racial inequality 
        throughout the South;
Whereas the Greensboro Four were joined by female students from Bennett College 
        and Greensboro Women's College;
Whereas the sit-ins spread nationwide with over 700,000 people participating, 
        including students, clergymen, and citizens, both White and Black;
Whereas the protests resulted in more than 3,000 arrests;
Whereas the Greensboro Four remained peaceful throughout the 6-month sit-in; and
Whereas the Woolworth Lunch Counter was integrated on July 26, 1960: Now, 
        therefore, be it
    Resolved, That the House of Representatives--
            (1) recognizes the significance of the Greensboro Four and 
        acknowledges their contribution to the Civil Rights Movement, 
        and recognizes the significance of the Greensboro Four as a 
        catalyst for the mobilization of college students in the Civil 
        Rights Movement coalescing in the formation of the Student Non-
        Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC);
            (2) recognizes that ethnic and racial diversity of the 
        United States enriches and strengthens the Nation; and
            (3) encourages all States to include in their year-round 
        educational curriculum the history and contributions of the 
        Greensboro Four in North Carolina, and the country as a whole.
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