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Memorial Honoring the Life and Legacy of the Late U.S. Representative Parren J. Mitchell For the purpose of dedicating a memorial at the City of Annapolis Pip Moyer Recreation Center in honor of the late U.S. Representative Parren J. Mitchell (D-MD), the first African-American elected to Congress from Maryland.
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CITY COUNCIL OF THE
City of Annapolis
Resolution 19-25
Introduced by: Mayor Buckley
Co-sponsored by: Alderman Schandelmeier, Alderwoman Finlayson
A RESOLUTION concerning
Memorial Honoring the Life and Legacy of the Late U.S. Representative Parren J. Mitchell (1922-2007)
FOR the purpose of dedicating a memorial at the City of Annapolis Pip Moyer Recreation Center in honor of the late U.S. Representative Parren J. Mitchell (D-MD), the first African-American elected to Congress from Maryland.
WHEREAS, Parren J. Mitchell was a trailblazing figure in American politics, serving as the first African American Congressman from Maryland, elected as a Democrat to the 92nd Congress and re-elected to seven succeeding Congresses from January 1971 through January 1987 ; and
EARLY YEARS
WHEREAS, Parren J. Michell was born in Baltimore, Maryland, on April 29, 1922, to Clarence Maurice and Elsie Davis Mitchell, and attended Baltimore public schools, graduating from Frederick Douglass High School in 1940, received his A.B. from Morgan State College in 1950, received his M.A. from the University of Maryland College Park in 1952, and undertook graduate work in sociology at the University of Connecticut; and
WHEREAS, Mr. Mitchell served as a commissioned officer and company commander in the United States Army, 92nd Infantry Division, from 1942 through 1945, and received a Purple Heart; and
WHEREAS, Mr. Mitchell served as:
* Professor of sociology and assistant director of the Urban Studies Institute of Morgan State College.
* Executive director of the Maryland Human Relations Commission from 1963 to 1965;
* Executive director of the Baltimore Com...
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