AL HR116

Commends Eliza Jane Manuel at the Fourth Annual Foot Soldiers Celebration for her contributions to the Civil Rights Movement.

Recognizes Manuel's voting rights activism between 1963 and 1965, including nightly walks to Brown Chapel mass meetings and preparing meals for marchers in Selma.

Details Manuel's lifelong service to Shiloh Baptist Church as a Sunday School teacher, usher, choir member, and matron, and her membership in the R.D. Nesbitt Sr. Assembly #205 Order of the Golden Circle.

Acknowledges Manuel's determination to secure voting rights for African Americans through segregation resistance, contributing to the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 on August 6, 1965.