Title: Recognizing the significance of National Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU) Conference Week.
Policy area: Education

Summary:
This resolution expresses support for historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) and recognizes National HBCU Conference Week.

[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Res. 619 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  1st Session
H. RES. 619

 Recognizing the significance of National Historically Black Colleges 
                and Universities (HBCU) Conference Week.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           September 3, 2021

Ms. Adams (for herself, Mr. Bishop of Georgia, Ms. Sewell, Mr. Johnson 
  of Georgia, Mr. Thompson of Mississippi, Ms. Tlaib, Mr. Cooper, Ms. 
 Wilson of Florida, Mr. Lawson of Florida, Mr. Luetkemeyer, Ms. Lee of 
    California, Mr. Danny K. Davis of Illinois, Ms. Strickland, Ms. 
   Scanlon, Mr. Gohmert, Mr. Butterfield, Mr. Crist, Ms. Williams of 
     Georgia, Mr. McEachin, and Ms. Ross) submitted the following 
 resolution; which was referred to the Committee on Education and Labor

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                               RESOLUTION


 
 Recognizing the significance of National Historically Black Colleges 
                and Universities (HBCU) Conference Week.

Whereas the Department of Education recognizes September 6 through September 10, 
        2021, as National HBCU Conference Week;
Whereas historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) were established in 
        the United States of America beginning in the early nineteenth century 
        and continued to be established throughout the nineteenth century to 
        provide educational opportunities and valuable guidance to Black 
        students;
Whereas after the Civil War, HBCUs continued to provide education and valuable 
        guidance to formerly enslaved students;
Whereas slavery and segregation served as barriers to Black students' successful 
        enrollment in colleges and universities;
Whereas notable Black Americans, such as Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall 
        and W.E.B. Du Bois, attended an HBCU;
Whereas, on May 17, 1954, Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka established that 
        racial segregation in public schools is unconstitutional;
Whereas, on November 8, 1965, Congress officially defined a historically Black 
        college or university (HBCU) as an institution of higher learning that 
        was accredited and established before 1964, and whose principal mission 
        was the education of African Americans;
Whereas Congress calls for the issuance of a Presidential proclamation to mark 
        National HBCU Conference Week; and
Whereas HBCUs continue to remain integral to the United States of America 
        academically, socially, and economically: Now, therefore, be it
    Resolved, That the House of Representatives--
            (1) recognizes National HBCU Conference Week; and
            (2) reaffirms its support for HBCUs and students attending 
        HBCUs.
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