Title: Recognizing the historical significance of the 70th anniversary of the Miller v. Board of Education of District of Columbia decision.
Policy area: Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues

Summary:
This concurrent resolution recognizes the significance of the 70th anniversary of Miller v. Board of Education of District of Columbia, in which the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia held that the District had a duty to provide equal educational facilities within the District for Black deaf children as for White deaf children (in accordance with the Supreme Court's holding in Missouri ex rel. Gaines v. Canada that a state may not provide educational facilities within its boundary for one race and send the other outside the state to receive the same course of instruction).

[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Con. Res. 96 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  2d Session
H. CON. RES. 96

Recognizing the historical significance of the 70th anniversary of the 
     Miller v. Board of Education of District of Columbia decision.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              July 5, 2022

    Mr. Takano (for himself and Ms. Norton) submitted the following 
   concurrent resolution; which was referred to the Committee on the 
Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Education and Labor, 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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                         CONCURRENT RESOLUTION


 
Recognizing the historical significance of the 70th anniversary of the 
     Miller v. Board of Education of District of Columbia decision.

Whereas equal access to a free public education in the United States is a right;
Whereas, prior to 1952, Black Deaf children in the District of Columbia were not 
        permitted to attend the Kendall School for the Deaf on the Gallaudet 
        College campus and were sent outside of the District for their 
        education;
Whereas Louise Burrell Miller, the mother of 4 children, 3 of whom were deaf, 
        filed suit in Federal court against the District of Columbia Board of 
        Education on behalf of her Black Deaf son, Kenneth, and other Black Deaf 
        children who were denied admission to the Kendall School, with the aim 
        of ending segregation and having their Black Deaf children educated 
        within the District;
Whereas, on July 3, 1952, the United States District Court for the District of 
        Columbia ruled in their favor in Miller v. Board of Education of 
        District of Columbia, stating that African Americans could not be sent 
        outside a State or district to obtain the same education that White 
        students could have within the State or district; and
Whereas this ruling led to the construction of the Kendall School Division II at 
        Gallaudet in 1953, which educated 23 Black Deaf children until its 
        closure in 1954 following the Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board 
        of Education of Topeka, in which the Court decided unanimously that 
        racial segregation of children in public schools was unconstitutional: 
        Now, therefore, be it
    Resolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate concurring), 
That Congress--
            (1) recognizes the significance of the 70th anniversary of 
        the Miller v. Board of Education of District of Columbia 
        decision;
            (2) honors the courage and leadership of Louise and Luther 
        Miller and their children, Kenneth, Carol, Gerald, and Justin 
        Miller; and
            (3) remembers the 23 Black Deaf children who attended and 
        the 4 teachers who taught at the segregated Kendall School 
        Division II.
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