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Statement by the Press Secretary on H.R. 360

On Friday, May 24, 2013, the President signed into law:

H.R. 360, which provides for the presentation of a congressional gold medal to commemorate the lives of the four young African American victims of the bombing of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, in September 1963.