S 2886
113th Congress
Senate
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Commemorative events and holidays
Congressional tributes
Crime victims
Mississippi
Racial and ethnic relations
U.S. history
Violent crime
A bill to award posthumously a Congressional Gold Medal, collectively, to James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner to commemorate the lives they lost 50 years ago in an effort to bring justice and equality to Americans in Mississippi during Freedom Summer.
Introduced: September 18, 2014
Introduced by:
Wicker, Roger F.
Republican
· Mississippi
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Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Sep 18, 2014
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
Sep 18, 2014
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 posthumous presentation of a congressional gold medal, collectively, to James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner to commemorate the lives they lost 50 years ago in an effort to bring justice and equality to Americans in Mississippi during Freedom Summer.
Requires such medal, following its award, to be given to Tougaloo College in Tougaloo, Mississippi.
What's happening now
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
Committees of jurisdiction
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Cosponsors
1