Reverend Harold Middlebrook Post Office Building
Floor Speech
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Mr. GILL of Texas. Mr. Speaker, I move to suspend the rules and pass the bill (H.R. 1372) to designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 300 Macedonia Lane in Knoxville, Tennessee, as the ``Reverend Harold Middlebrook Post Office Building''.
The Clerk read the title of the bill.
The text of the bill is as follows: H.R. 1372
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, SECTION 1. REVEREND HAROLD MIDDLEBROOK POST OFFICE BUILDING.
(a) Designation.--The facility of the United States Postal Service located at 300 Macedonia Lane in Knoxville, Tennessee, shall be known and designated as the ``Reverend Harold Middlebrook Post Office Building''.
(b) References.--Any reference in a law, map, regulation, document, paper, or other record of the United States to the facility referred to in subsection (a) shall be deemed to be a reference to the ``Reverend Harold Middlebrook Post Office Building''.
Mr. Speaker, I rise in support of this bill, which would rename a post office in Knoxville, Tennessee, for Reverend Harold Middlebrook.
Reverend Middlebrook played a crucial role in the civil rights movement during the sanitation workers strike in Memphis and later founded the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Commemorative Commission in Knoxville.
Reverend Middlebrook was president of the Bolivar Human Development Corporation, an adviser to the Hardeman County Bi-Racial Commission, coordinator of the Hardeman County Political Action Commission, and an advisory board member of the Tennessee Public Service Commission.
Reverend Middlebrook was a loving father to his three children, two of whom followed his footsteps to work in public service.
Mr. Speaker, I encourage my colleagues to support this bill, and I reserve the balance of my time.
Mr. Speaker, I encourage my House colleagues to support this bill naming a post office for an honored community member, Reverend Harold Middlebrook.
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