To direct the Joint Committee of Congress on the Library to obtain a statue of Clarence Mitchell, Jr. for placement in the United States Capitol.

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress] [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office] [H.R. 7915 Introduced in House (IH)] <DOC> 119th CONGRESS 2d Session H. R. 7915 To direct the Joint Committee of Congress on the Library to obtain a statue of Clarence Mitchell, Jr. for placement in the United States Capitol. _______________________________________________________________________ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES March 12, 2026 Mr. Mfume (for himself, Mr. Olszewski, Ms. Elfreth, Mr. Bishop, Mr. Davis of Illinois, Mr. Carson, Ms. Brown, Mr. Thanedar, and Mr. Figures) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on House Administration _______________________________________________________________________ A BILL To direct the Joint Committee of Congress on the Library to obtain a statue of Clarence Mitchell, Jr. for placement in the United States Capitol. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. This Act may be cited as the ``Clarence Mitchell, Jr. Statue Act''. SEC. 2. FINDINGS. Congress finds the following: (1) Clarence Mitchell, Jr. was born in Baltimore on March 8, 1911, attended Baltimore City Public Schools, received his Juris Doctorate from the University of Maryland School of Law, and spent most of his career practicing law in Baltimore. (2) Early in his career, Clarence Mitchell, Jr. was a reporter for the Baltimore Afro-American newspaper, the longest running African-American family-owned newspaper in the nation. During his time as a reporter, he reported on the lynching of George Armwood, whose death marked the last recorded lynching in Maryland. (3) According to the Maryland State Archives, Clarence Mitchell, Jr. served as the director of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (``NAACP'') Washington Bureau from 1950 to 1978, waging a tireless campaign to secure passage of passage of the 1957 and 1964 Civil Rights Laws, th