S 186
113th Congress
Senate
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Alabama
Commemorative events and holidays
Congressional tributes
Crime victims
Racial and ethnic relations
U.S. history
Violent crime
A bill to award posthumously a Congressional Gold Medal to Addie Mae Collins, Denise McNair, Carole Robertson, and Cynthia Wesley, in recognition of the 50th anniversary of the bombing of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church, where the 4 little Black girls lost their lives, which served as a catalyst for the Civil Rights Movement.
Introduced: January 30, 2013
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Jan 30, 2013
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
Jan 30, 2013
Introduced in Senate
Plain-English summary
Directs the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the President pro tempore of the Senate to arrange for the presentation of a congressional gold medal to commemorate the lives of Addie Mae Collins, Denise McNair, Carole Robertson, and Cynthia Wesley (children who lost their lives in the September 1963 bombing of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, an incident recognized as a catalyst for the civil rights movement).
Authorizes the Secretary of the Treasury to strike and sell bronze duplicates of such medals, with amounts received from the sale to be deposited in the U.S. Mint Public Enterprise Fund.
What's happening now
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
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