{"database": "openregs", "table": "congressional_record", "rows": [["CREC-2022-12-27-pt1-PgE1361-3", "2022-12-27", 117, 2, null, null, "EMMETT TILL AND MAMIE TILL-MOBLEY CONGRESSIONAL GOLD MEDAL ACT OF 2021", "HOUSE", "EXTENSIONS", "ALLOTHER", "E1361", "E1361", "[{\"name\": \"Sheila Jackson Lee\", \"role\": \"speaking\"}]", "[{\"congress\": \"117\", \"type\": \"S\", \"number\": \"450\"}]", "168 Cong. Rec. E1361", "Congressional Record, Volume 168 Issue 202 (Tuesday, December 27, 2022)\n\n[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 202 (Tuesday, December 27, 2022)]\n[Extensions of Remarks]\n[Page E1361]\nFrom the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]\n\n EMMETT TILL AND MAMIE TILL-MOBLEY CONGRESSIONAL GOLD MEDAL ACT OF 2021\n\n                                 ______\n\n                               speech of\n\n                        HON. SHEILA JACKSON LEE\n\n                                of texas\n\n                    in the house of representatives\n\n                      Thursday, December 29, 2022\n\n  Ms. JACKSON LEE. Mr. Speaker, I rise in support of S. 450, Emmett\nTill and Mamie Till-Mobley Congressional Gold Medal Act of 2021 which\nwill posthumously award a Congressional Gold Medal in commemoration of\nEmmett Till and Mamie Till-Mobley. After which, the medal will be given\nto the National Museum of African American History and Culture.\n  I loudly applaud and support the Emmett Till and Mamie Till-Mobley\nCongressional Gold Medal Act of 2021. The passage of this legislation\nis long overdue and today is a monumental day for the United States of\nAmerica.\n  This bill, the Emmett Till and Mamie Till-Mobley Congressional Gold\nMedal Act of 2021, provides for the posthumous presentation of a\nCongressional Gold Medal in commemoration of Emmett Till and Mamie\nTill-Mobley.\n  After the award, the medal shall be given to the National Museum of\nAfrican American History and Culture.\n  In January of 1900, Ida B. Wells gave a speech declaring that our\ncountry's national crime at the time was lynching.\n  Lynching was a terror tactic frequently used against African\nAmericans in the Jim Crow South. At the time, no colored man was safe\nfrom lynching if a white woman, no matter what her standing or motive,\ncares to charge him with insult or assault.\n  Unfortunately, many innocent adolescents like Emmett Till fell victim\nto these tortuous killings.\n  Emmett Till was brutally murdered on August 28, 1955, for allegedly\nflirting with a white woman four days earlier.\n  The white woman, her husband and brother, made Emmett carry a 75-\npound cotton gin fan to the bank of the Tallahache River. They then\nforced Emmett to remove his clothes.\n  The 2 men began beating Emmett, nearly to death, gouged his eye out,\nshot him in the head and then threw his body into the river.\n  Despite malicious efforts from authorities to quickly bury Emmett's\nbody, his mother, Mamie Bradley demanded it be sent back to Chicago.\n  Here is where she decided to invite media outlets to Emmett's\nfuneral, left his casket open during the funeral, and let these media\noutlets show the world what racist murderers had done to her only son.\n  It is, of course, fitting, and proper that this legislation bears the\nname of Emmett Till and his mother, Mamie Till-Mobley. Till's slaying\nin 1955 and his mother's decision to have an open casket at his\nfuneral, stirred the Nation's conscience and galvanized a generation of\nAmericans to join the fight for equality.\n  Fast forward to 1998 in the small town of Jasper, Texas, three white\nmen offered James Byrd, Jr. ride home.\n  The next morning James Byrd, Jr.'s body was found. He was beaten,\nchained to the back of a truck, had spray paint all over his face, and\ndragged alive until he was decapitated, all because of the color of his\nskin.\n  This was an act of unfathomable racist brutality.\n  On February 23, 2020, Ahmaud Arbery was fatally shot and killed by\nTravis McMichael and his father George McMichael. Ahmaud Arbery was\njogging through his neighborhood, unarmed, and was tragically killed by\nthe McMichaels who claim they thought he was a local burglar.\n  They followed him in their truck and eventually shot him as he\nstruggled fighting Travis off.\n  Local law enforcement attempted to cover up the killing by telling\nArbery's family that he had been killed while committing a crime and\nthat the men who shot him would face no charges.\n  Luckily, footage of the incident was taken and this footage was\nwidely shared.\n  Finally, after national outcry sparked activism, the McMichaels were\narrested and charged, and convicted in the killing of Ahmaud Arbery and\ngiven a life sentence.\n  This tragedy was immediately characterized as yet another modern-day\nlynching.\n  More than 150 years since Reconstruction, some still try to utilize\nfalse narratives that dehumanize people of color suspected of crimes to\nlegitimate their inhumane treatment.\n  Sadly, hundreds of thousands of people of color have been killed, and\nmany of the killers, like those of Emmett himself, were never\nsuccessfully prosecuted.\n  Over the past half century, the United States has made tremendous\nprogress in overcoming the badges and vestiges of slavery. But this\nprogress has been purchased at great cost.\n  The Emmett Till and Mamie Till-Mobley Congressional Gold Medal Act of\n2021 will ensure that Emmett Till and Mamie Till-Mobley are properly\nhonored for their sacrifice and commitment to equality and justice.\n  In doing so, this legislation will help move this Nation one step\ncloser to fulfilling its promise that in America all men are created\nequal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable\nRights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of\nHappiness.\n\n                          ____________________"]], "columns": ["granule_id", "date", "congress", "session", "volume", "issue", "title", "chamber", "granule_class", "sub_granule_class", "page_start", "page_end", "speakers", "bills", "citation", "full_text"], "primary_keys": ["granule_id"], "primary_key_values": ["CREC-2022-12-27-pt1-PgE1361-3"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.2443140149116516, "source": "Federal Register API & Regulations.gov API", "source_url": "https://www.federalregister.gov/developers/api/v1", "license": "Public Domain (U.S. Government data)", "license_url": "https://www.regulations.gov/faq"}