{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["http://norton.house.gov//media-center/press-releases/norton-to-speak-at-dr-carter-g-woodson-139th-birthday-celebration", "Norton to Speak at Dr. Carter G. Woodson 139th Birthday Celebration, Tonight", "2014-12-19", "2014", "2014-12", "Democrat", "House", "DC", "Eleanor Norton", "N000147", "norton.house.gov", null, null, "legacy", "WASHINGTON, D.C. \u2013 Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) will offer opening remarks at the 139th birthday commemoration of the legacy of Dr. Carter G. Woodson, tonight, December 19, around 6:30 p.m. at Shiloh Baptist Church (1500 9th Street NW).\u00a0 The event is hosted by the National Park Service (NPS) and its partners, including the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH), founded by Dr. Woodson, located on the site of the Woodson home.\n\u201cThe annual celebration of Dr. Woodson\u2019s life is best used to renew our resolve to get his historic home site completed so it can accommodate ASALH and visitors,\u201d Norton said.\u00a0 \u201cWe should also measure our progress each year until we get it done.\u201d\nAfter trying for years to get funding to rehabilitate the Carter G. Woodson National Historic Site, Norton wrote to the President to ask him to include $3.2 million in his fiscal year 2014 budget.\u00a0 After the President included the money, Norton got House and Senate appropriators to include the funding.\u00a0 Norton said this funding will help to finish the rehabilitation of the main home, where Woodson actually lived.\u00a0 Norton also is seeking additional funds in light of the damage done by the 2011 earthquake, which will be used to rehabilitate the two adjacent structures needed to accommodate ASALH and to ensure space for visitors to learn of Woodson\u2019s life and work.\u00a0 She expects funding through the NPS\u2019s first private-public partnership with a nonprofit familiar with the Shaw neighborhood.\u00a0 Once the project is fully completed, there will be restrooms, an elevator, and interpretive program areas available to visitors to the historic site.\nDr. Carter G. Woodson established Negro History Week in 1926, which has evolved into Black History Month, and is commemorated at the White House and throughout the United States annually.\u00a0 Dr. Woodson, only the second African American to receive a Harvard PhD, is one of the most distinguished American historians and the central figure credited with rescuing the history of African Americans at a time when racist propaganda asserted that Blacks were inferior and had no substantive history beyond slavery.", 1, "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z", "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["http://norton.house.gov//media-center/press-releases/norton-to-speak-at-dr-carter-g-woodson-139th-birthday-celebration"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.679775770753622, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}