HRES 173
Restoring the promise of freedom: honoring, preserving, and investing in Freedmen's Settlements.
Summary
This resolution recognizes, and expresses support for preserving and investing in, freedmen's settlements. Freedmen's settlements generally were established before and after emancipation by free and formerly enslaved African Americans to create self-sustaining communities away from racial violence and economic discrimination.
Bill status
- Status
- In committee
- Sponsor
- Rep. Sydney Kamlager-Dove [D-CA-37]
- Cosponsors
- 15
- Policy area
- Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
- Introduced
- 2025-02-27
- Latest action
- 2025-02-27: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
Committee referrals
Recent actions
- 2025-02-27: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
- 2025-02-27: Submitted in House