1. Short title This Act may be cited as the as the Marshall ‘Major’ Taylor Congressional Gold Medal Act . 2. Findings Congress finds the following: (1) Marshall Walter Major Taylor was born in Indianapolis, Indiana, on November 26, 1878, to Black parents who likely had been enslaved in Kentucky, and died impoverished on June 21, 1932, in a hospital charity ward in Chicago, Illinois. (2) As a child, Taylor spent considerable time at the home of a wealthy White family in Indianapolis who employed his father as a coachman, treated the Black youngster as an equal to their son, Daniel Southard, and gave Taylor his first bicycle. (3) Taylor acquired the nickname Major in his youth when he performed bicycle tricks outside his workplace, the Hay & Willits bike shop in Indianapolis, while wearing a military-style jacket, and he won his first bike race in 1890 at age 11. (4) Taylor moved to Worcester, Massachusetts, with his employer, mentor, and racing manager, Louis D. Birdie Munger, in 1895, and became known in his sport not only for his lightning sprints but also for his good sportsmanship, disciplined physical training, and devotion to his religion. (5) Taylor received a professional racing license from the League of American Wheelmen at age 18 despite the League’s 1894 whites only rule for amateur membership and made his professional debut in December 1896 in a six-day race at Madison Square Garden in New York, New York, defeating national champion Eddie Bald in a half-mile exhibition race on the eve of the six-day endurance contest and placing eighth in the six-day track cycling competition. (6) In 1897, Taylor earned a spot alongside 4 White men on one of the first racially integrated professional sports teams in the nation, a five-man squad that won a Boston vs. Philadelphia pursuit race held in Cambridge, Massachusetts. (7) Taylor set numerous world speed records and held 7 world records at the end of 1898 for various distances, including the coveted 1 mile, and he further lowered the 1-mile world record to 1