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PUBLIC LAW 99-511—OCT. 21, 1986

Public Law 99-511 99th Congress

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Joint Resolution Oct 21 1986 [H.J. Res. 666]

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Expressing the sense of Congress in support of a commemorative structure within the National Park System dedicated to the promotion of understanding, knowledge, opportunity and equality for all people.

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the National Council ^°^ Education and EJconomic Development, Inc., a private nonprofit organization having for its primary purposes examination of the economic, constitutional, legal and social conditions and ramifications of slavery; the history of Afro-Americans; promotion of education and understanding among all people of the American slave experience and its role in the history of the United States; and elimination of barriers of every kind and nature to learning and opportunity faced by Afro-American, minority, poor and other children, is deserving of encouragement and support of the American people in its program to raise an endowment to assure a permanent location of a commemorative structure within the National Park System, or on other Federal lands, dedicated to understanding, knowledge, opportunity and equality for all people. Approved October 21, 1986.

LEGISLATIVE HISTORY—H.J. Res. 666: SENATE REPORTS: No. 99-463 (Comm. on Energy and Natural Resources). CONGRESSIONAL RECORD, Vol. 132 (1986): June 26, considered and passed House. Oct. 8, considered and passed Senate.

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