MS HR78

Honors Flonzie "Goodloe" Brown-Wright for being the first African-American female elected to public office in Mississippi since Reconstruction when she was elected as Election Commissioner in 1968.

Recognizes her civil rights activism including joining the Mississippi Civil Rights Movement in 1963 as Field Secretary for the State NAACP and her work with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission from 1974 to 1989.

Acknowledges her authorship of "Looking Back to Move Ahead" (1994), founding of the Flonzie B. Wright Scholarship Fund (providing over $40,000 to students), and participation in the award-winning documentary "Standing on My Sisters' Shoulders."

Notes her receipt of more than 400 community service awards, listings in "Who's Who Among Black Americans" and "Who's Who Among Black Mississippians," and service as co-event director for the 50th Anniversary of the Mississippi Freedom Riders Reunion in 2011.

Directs that copies of the resolution be furnished to Brown-Wright, the Mississippi Department of Archives and History, and the Capitol Press Corps.