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Eleanor Holmes Norton: entires -- entire house has you, mr. chairman, for a lifetime of work in civil rights and human rights. i thank my good colleague, who serves with me on the government reform committee. i especially

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Eleanor Holmes Norton: thank my colleague, john lewis, who was chair of the student nonhaven't coordinating committee when i first joined. i think i can say for john and me that neither of us expected to be

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Eleanor Holmes Norton: the progress that i think we can say assures that these brutal murders, the murders that we came to call the schwerner, chaney, and goodman murders certainly have not been in vain. in 1963

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Eleanor Holmes Norton: frankly it was terrorist country and to show you the extent to which mississippi was a different place, it took the naacp and medgar evers to lead the sit-ins there and they got beat unmercifully

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Eleanor Holmes Norton: the high point of student activism. we sure did. john and others went throughout the united states and they came in huge numbers. we had the highest hopes. i was particularly working on the 1964

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Eleanor Holmes Norton: delegation which had excluded -- which had excluded african-americans should be recognized. why was there a mississippi democratic party? because indeed in the summer of 1964 so many had come down

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Eleanor Holmes Norton: anything thrust the civil rights movement forward in way it had not been before. .y it had not been before. could i have another minute? the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman's time has expired.

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Eleanor Holmes Norton: i had first worked for the march on washington, then went to the delta. that was, i must say, the most eventful summer of my life, more eventful even than 1964. medg ea are r evers put

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Eleanor Holmes Norton: killed in his driveway that evening. that was a year i shall never forget. the fact is, the 1964 summer in fact happened. the students did not go home after the murders. we continued to

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Eleanor Holmes Norton: the democratic party. it democratized even the republican party. i must say that both parties then recognized that they had to have representative delegations. when i have, on occasion, met

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Eleanor Holmes Norton: they personally made to the freedom struggle. they have no regrets. they understand that the loss of youngsters from the north was the last thing we expected and that that loss helped to wake

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Eleanor Holmes Norton: i would then come to enforce as a chair of the equal employment opportunity commission. this was the first civil rights legislation since the radical republicans gave us our first civil rights legislation

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Eleanor Holmes Norton: national panorama doesn't drive that home, surely the fact that mississippi today has the largest number of black public officials will help you to see that they did not die in vain and surely

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Eleanor Holmes Norton: at the dawn of their lives, not only did not die in vain, but for generations to come and yes, for this generation have left a legacy. i thank the gentleman for yielding. mr. conyers: i yield