HR117 Summary

• Commends Sadie Mae Simmons Mitchell Moss at the Fourth Annual Foot Soldiers Celebration for her contributions to the Civil Rights Movement as a foot soldier who marched and was arrested.

• Recognizes her over 50 years of dedicated service to education in Selma and Dallas County, including work as a teacher, counselor, and Director of the McRae Gaines Learning Center since 2005.

• Notes the "Sadie Moss Summer Learning Institute," a summer program named in her honor in 2018 that provides learning opportunities in English, mathematics, the arts, and physical activity for children ages four to eight.

• Acknowledges her extensive community involvement, including membership in Delta Sigma Theta Sorority since 1987 and service as President from 2000-2004 and 2008-2012, plus volunteer work in various community initiatives.

• Credits her and other foot soldiers' courage and persistence with contributing to the passage of the federal Voting Rights Act of 1965.