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U.S. GOVERNMENT
INFORMATION .
117TH CONGRESS REPORT
2d Session HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 117-299
NATIONAL LIBERTY MEMORIAL PRESERVATION ACT
APRIL 25, 2022.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of
the Union and ordered to be printed
Mr. GRIJALVA, from the Committee on Natural Resources,
submitted the following
R E P O R T
[To accompany H.R. 6201]
[Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office]
The Committee on Natural Resources, to whom was referred the
bill (H.R. 6201) to extend the authority for the establishment of a
commemorative work to honor enslaved and free Black persons
who served in the American Revolution, and for other purposes,
having considered the same, reports favorably thereon without
amendment and recommends that the bill do pass.
PURPOSE OF THE BILL
The purpose of H.R. 6201 is to extend the authority for the estab-
lishment of a commemorative work to honor enslaved and free
Black persons who served in the American Revolution, and for
other purposes.
BACKGROUND AND NEED FOR LEGISLATION
H.R. 6201 would extend the authorization of the National Liberty
Memorial-a monument to commemorate enslaved and free African
Americans who fought in the Revolutionary War-until September
2027. The authorization would allow the National Mall Liberty
Fund DC, a private nonprofit established and congressionally au-
thorized to raise donations and construct the memorial, to continue
construction of this memorial near the National Mall in Wash-
ington, D.C. Construction costs are covered by donations and come
at no cost to taxpayers.
Efforts to establish the National Liberty Memorial began when
Lena Santos Ferguson, an African American woman from Plain-
ville, CT, sought to join the Daughters of the American Revolution
(DAR). The settlement of her discrimination claim in 1984 obli-
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