Former US civil rights activist, now lawmaker, urges passage after House advances coin bill

: United States Congress is advancing statute law to tag the 50th day of remembrance of the U.S. Civil Rights Act with a commemorative Ag dollar.

The House passed the measurement without resistance on Tuesday, and a similar measurement is pending in the Senate, sponsored by Democratic Sens. Debbie Stabenow and Barack Obama, who also is a campaigner for president.

House patron Toilet Lewis, an Capital Of Georgia Democrat, former civil rights leader and associate of slain St Martin Martin Luther King Jr., said the statute law is not just symbolic. Gross Sales of the limited-edition coin would bring forth some $2.5 million (€1.6 million) to be donated to the United Black College Fund for scholarships and other expenses.

The bill, also backed by Rep. Deborah Pryce, a Republican, and Democratic Rep. Vic Snyder, had stalled for two years, partly because United States Congress bounds itself to just two commemorative coins per year.

It directs the U.S. Batch to bring forth 350,000 $1 coins to be sold beginning in 2014, marking the aureate day of remembrance of the landmark law's sign language in 1964. Among other things, the law barred restaurants, hotels and other populace topographic points from denying service to blacknesses and outlawed employment favoritism against women and minorities. Today in Americas

Citing research screening that roughly half of achromatic high school pupils will drop out before graduation, UNCF President Michael Lomax said the coin's return are badly needed, and the money would go on the missionary post of the civil rights movement.

"Dr. King gave his life so that all children could have got the chance to recognize their full potential," he said.

Past coins have got famed Civil War battlefields, assorted Olympic games, the 1994 World Cup association football tourney and the Statue of Liberty. Last year, the Batch began selling a coin marking the 50th day of remembrance of the 1957 integration of Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas.

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