A Star Has Fallen: Congressman Elijah Cummings

A star has fallen. Maryland Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, a sharecropper’s son who rose to turn a absolute authority of a United States Senate has died. Congressman Cummings was innate and lifted in Baltimore, Maryland, where he remained until his death. He was 68. Cummings was a challenging orator who sexually advocated for a bad in his black-majority district, that encompasses a vast apportionment of Baltimore as good as some-more affluent suburbs.

Growing adult during a heavily segregated times in America, Cummings began his prolonged pull for polite rights during age 11. Having been separate on and threatened when he and other area kids attempted to get into a city pool, a immature activity helped confederate a swimming pool in Baltimore. Cummings removed how he and other black children orderly protests with assistance from their distraction personality and a NAACP during a new debate to a American Bar Association.

Cummings performed his Bachelor’s Degree in Political Science from Howard University, portion as Student Government President and graduating Phi Beta Kappa, and afterwards graduated from a University Of Maryland School Of Law. Congressman Cummings has also perceived 13 titular doctoral degrees from universities via a republic while dedicating his life of use to fortifying and lenient a people he is sworn to represent. Congressman Cummings mostly says:

Our children are a critical messages that we send to a destiny we will never see. In that vein, he is committed to ensuring that a subsequent era has entrance to peculiarity medical and education, purify atmosphere and water, and a clever economy tangible by mercantile responsibility.

He began his career of open use in a Maryland House of Delegates, where he served for 14 years and became a initial African American in Maryland story to be named Speaker Pro Tem. Since 1996, Congressman Cummings has proudly represented Maryland’s 7th Congressional District in a U.S. House of Representatives.

Many cruise a congressman to be a natural-born leader. Throughout his career, Cummings used his burning voice to prominence a struggles and needs of inner-city residents. He believed in much-debated approaches to assistance a bad and addicted, such as needle sell programs to revoke a widespread of AIDS.

Cummings’ career spanned decades in Maryland politics. He rose by a ranks of a Maryland House of Delegates before winning his congressional chair in a 1996 special choosing to reinstate Kweisi Mfume, who left to lead a NAACP.

A star has fallen. Having sacrificed his private life and his girl for people, and stays Baltimore’s best famous and desired hero. All in all, Cummings was one of a good dignified and domestic leaders of a time. He is worshiped among a “House” and is reputable everywhere as a critical force in a quarrel for tellurian rights and secular equality.

At 68 years of age, a star has fallen. Well finished Congressman Cummings, good done!

Opinion by Cherese Jackson (Virginia)

Sources:

Biography: Congressman Elijah Cummings
Washington Post: Elijah Cummings, Baltimore congressman and polite rights leader, dies during 68

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