HR171 Summary

• Mourns the death of Reverend Daisy Annette Lewis of Montgomery, Alabama, who died on March 25, 2019, at age 82.

• Recognizes Reverend Lewis as the first female and first African American bus driver in Montgomery despite initial employment denial by the City of Montgomery.

• Notes her varied career accomplishments including work as a brick mason, cook, seamstress, taxi driver, cosmetologist, and bus/ambulance driver for the Montgomery Community Action Agency Head Start Program and Capital Trailways of Alabama.

• Documents that she became an African Episcopal Methodist minister after receiving certification from Lomax-Hannon Junior College and was honored in JET Magazine (January 1975) and Ebony Magazine (February 1966).

• Extends heartfelt sympathy to her surviving children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren, and extended family members.