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Rep. Green, Al [D-TX-9] · D–TX
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Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
Introduced in House
Introduced in House
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Based on the full Introduced in House · 2025-08-15 text. This explanation has not received human editorial review. This overview describes the proposal’s major provisions; it does not establish what its real-world effects would be.
This proposed resolution would designate an annual Slavery Remembrance Day, condemn slavery and its harmful legacies, and encourage public remembrance. Its preamble identifies August 20 as the remembrance date, although the operative provision does not repeat that date. It would also authorize and request the President to call on people in the United States to observe the day with ceremonies and activities.
2. Slavery Remembrance Day That the House of Representatives and the Senate— (1) designate a Slavery Remembrance Day annually to serve as a reminder of the evils of slavery; (2) condemn slavery and its evil progenies; (3) encourage all to acknowledge the importance of slavery remembrance; and (4) authorizes and requests the President to issue a proclamation calling upon the people of the United States to observe such days with appropriate ceremonies and activities.
Whereas the House of Representatives and the Senate recognize August 20th, as Slavery Remembrance Day and commemorate the lives of all enslaved people while also condemning the act and perpetuation of slavery in the United States of America and across the world;
Section 1 gives the proposal the short title “Original Slavery Remembrance Day Resolution.”
1. Short title This resolution may be cited as the Original Slavery Remembrance Day Resolution.
Section 2 would designate a remembrance day every year to remind people of slavery's evils. The August 20 date appears in the preamble, the introductory statements explaining the proposal.
(1) designate a Slavery Remembrance Day annually to serve as a reminder of the evils of slavery;
Whereas the House of Representatives and the Senate recognize August 20th, as Slavery Remembrance Day
The resolution would express Congress's condemnation of slavery and its harmful legacies and encourage everyone to acknowledge the importance of remembering slavery.
(2) condemn slavery and its evil progenies; (3) encourage all to acknowledge the importance of slavery remembrance;
The President would be authorized and requested to issue a proclamation calling for public ceremonies and activities. This language calls on people to participate; it does not require their participation.
(4) authorizes and requests the President to issue a proclamation calling upon the people of the United States to observe such days with appropriate ceremonies and activities.
The preamble would honor deceased members of Congress who served during and after Reconstruction by naming them honorary cosponsors.
Whereas we posthumously recognize the following Members of Congress, who served during and after the Reconstruction Era, as honorary cosponsors of this resolution:
The preamble presents the suffering of enslaved people and their resistance as reasons for remembrance. It describes inhumane living and working conditions, the threat of family separation through sale, and enslaved people's contributions as leaders and revolutionaries.
Whereas enslaved people suffered a variety of miserable and often fatal maladies due to the Atlantic slave trade, and to inhumane living and working conditions;
Whereas enslaved Black families lived with the perpetual possibility of separation caused by the sale of 1 or more family members;
Whereas, despite the horrors of slavery and against all odds, enslaved people became thought leaders and revolutionaries and changed the course of American history: Now, therefore, be it
The preamble asserts that descendants of enslaved people continue to experience slavery's legacies, including segregation, police brutality, mass incarceration, and institutionalized racism. This is the proposal's stated rationale.
Whereas, while slavery was abolished, descendants of the enslaved continue to live with the effects of the progeny of slavery: Jim Crow, mass lynching, segregation, police brutality, mass incarceration, and institutionalized racism; and
The supplied actions snapshot, updated October 2, 2026, records introduction in the House and referral to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform on August 15, 2025.
Source snapshot updated 2026-10-02T08:05:52Z. 2025-08-15: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. 2025-08-15: Introduced in House
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