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MS SC538

Concurrent Resolution

Status

Failed

4/7/2011

Primary Sponsor

Sampson Jackson

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Origin

Senate

2011 Regular Session

AI Summary

  • Urges the federal government and Congress to name the FBI building located at 1220 Echelon Parkway in Jackson, Mississippi in honor of James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner.

  • Recognizes the three civil rights workers who disappeared in June 1964 near Philadelphia, Mississippi while registering African-American voters; their bodies were found in August 1964 in an earthen dam.

  • Notes that the FBI's Jackson Division was opened at President Lyndon B. Johnson's request during the investigation of the three men's disappearance, which became known as the MIBURN case.

  • References that seven men were convicted of federal conspiracy charges in connection with the case and sentenced to prison terms ranging from three to ten years.

  • Directs transmission of the resolution to the FBI Director, the General Services Administration, President Barack Obama, and Mississippi's congressional delegation.

Legislative Description

Urge federal government to name FBI Building for James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner.

Last Action

Died In Committee

4/7/2011

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