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UNCF 75th Anniversary

Floor Speech

Date: March 11, 2019
Location: Washington, DC
Issues: Civil Liberties and Civil Rights Higher Education

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Ms. ADAMS. Madam Speaker, I rise today in honor of the 75th anniversary of the United Negro College Fund.

UNCF was founded in 1944 by Frederick Douglass Patterson to help increase the number of black Americans enrolled in college.

In honor of UNCF's remarkable achievements, last week I joined with my colleague and Bipartisan HBCU Caucus Co-Chair Representative Bradley Byrne to introduce a resolution honoring UNCF as a strong organization that has a profound mission to build a robust and nationally recognized pipeline of students that will become leaders in our 21st century workforce.

In the past 75 years, UNCF has raised over $4.8 billion in scholarship aid for students and annually awards scholarships and internships to more than 10,000 students nationwide.

Due to the work of UNCF, more than 445 thousand students have earned college degrees and proven true their old adage of ``a mind is a terrible thing to waste--but a wonderful thing to invest in.''

Happy anniversary UNCF Here's to another 75 years of proven, effective advocacy.

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