Expressing the sense of Congress that the United States Postal Service should issue a commemorative postage stamp honoring civil rights workers Andrew Goodman, James Chaney, and Michael Schwerner, and the “Freedom Summer” of 1964, and that the Citizens’ Stamp Advisory Committee should recommend to the Postmaster General that such a stamp be issued.

H. Con. Res. 115 · 113th Congress · Sep 11, 2014 · Lineage

CONCURRENT RESOLUTION

Expressing the sense of Congress that the United States Postal Service should issue a commemorative postage stamp honoring civil rights workers Andrew Goodman, James Chaney, and Michael Schwerner, and the Freedom Summer of 1964, and that the Citizens’ Stamp Advisory Committee should recommend to the Postmaster General that such a stamp be issued.

That it is the sense of Congress that—

(1)

a commemorative postage stamp should be issued by the United States Postal Service honoring civil rights workers Andrew Goodman, James Chaney, and Michael Schwerner, and the “Freedom Summer” of 1964;

(2)

the stamp honoring these three men should be based upon the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) poster from 1964, which was created by Danny Lyon, a prominent photographer of the Civil Rights movement; and

(3)

the Citizens’ Stamp Advisory Committee should recommend to the Postmaster General that such a stamp be issued.

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Sep 11, 2014viewing Introduced in House Mr. David Scott of Georgia (for himself, Mr. Carson of Indiana, Ms. Lee of California, Mr. Hinojosa, Ms. Norton, Ms. Sewell of Alabama, Mr. Grijalva, Ms. Chu, Mr. Scott of Virginia, Ms. Kelly of Illinois, Mr. Meeks, Mr. McGovern, Mr. Fattah, Ms. Brown of Florida, Ms. Clarke of New York, Mr. Jeffries, and Mr. Veasey) submitted the following concurrent resolution; which was referred to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform

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