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 124 STAT. 4531 CONCURRENT RESOLUTIONS—MAR. 16, 2010 days of remembrance of victims of the Holocaust. Physical prepara- tions for the ceremony shall be carried out in accordance with such conditions as the Architect of the Capitol may prescribe. Agreed to March 5, 2010. WOMEN AIRFORCE SERVICE PILOTS, CONGRESSIONAL GOLD MEDAL AWARD CEREMONY—EMANCIPATION HALL AUTHORIZATION Resolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate concur- ring), SECTION 1. USE OF EMANCIPATION HALL FOR PRESENTATION OF CONGRESSIONAL GOLD MEDAL TO WOMEN AIRFORCE SERVICE PILOTS. (a) AUTHORIZATION.—Emancipation Hall in the Capitol Visitor Center is authorized to be used for a ceremony on March 10, 2010, to present the Congressional Gold Medal to the Women Airforce Service Pilots. (b) PREPARATIONS.—P hysical preparations for the conduct of the ceremony described in subsection (a) shall be carried out in accord- ance with such conditions as may be prescribed by the Architect of the Capitol. Agreed to March 5, 2010. BLOODY SUNDAY AND THE VOTING RIGHTS ACT OF 1965—45TH ANNIVERSARY COMMEMORATION Whereas brave people in the United States, known and unknown, of different races, ethnicities, and religions, risked their lives to stand for political equality and against racial discrimination in a quest culminating in the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965; Whereas numerous people in the United States paid the ultimate price in pursuit of that quest, while demanding that the Nation live up to the guarantees enshrined in the 14th and 15th Amend- ments to the United States Constitution; Whereas the historic struggle for equal voting rights led nonviolent civil rights marchers to gather on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, on March 7, 1965, a day that would come to be known as ‘‘Bloody Sunday’’, where their bravery was tested by a brutal response, which in turn sent a clarion call to the Nation that the fulfillment of democratic ideals could no longer be denied; Whereas, March 7, 2010, marks the 45th anniversary of Bloody Sunday, the day on which some 600 civil rights marchers were demonstrating for African-American voting rights; Mar. 16, 2010 [H. Con. Res. 249] Mar. 5, 2010 [H. Con. Res. 239]