US HB3622

Awards a Congressional Gold Medal to Joan Trumpauer Mulholland for her lifelong commitment to social justice and equality through direct action during the civil rights movement and ongoing educational activities

Mulholland participated in the 1961 Freedom Rides, was imprisoned at Parchman Penitentiary for over 60 days, became the first white full-time student at historically Black Tougaloo College in 1961, and participated in more than three dozen direct action campaigns throughout the South

Participated in the May 28, 1963 Jackson Woolworth's sit-in where demonstrators endured two-and-a-half hours of physical assault by a mob while maintaining nonviolent resistance, creating an iconic photograph that influenced public opinion

Worked alongside civil rights leaders including John Lewis, Julian Bond, Medgar Evers, and Fannie Lou Hamer, and was targeted for death by the Ku Klux Klan for her activism in Mississippi

Authorizes the Secretary of the Treasury to strike the gold medal and sell duplicate bronze medals, with costs charged to the United States Mint Public Enterprise Fund