Bill Text: GA HR196 | 2009-2010 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: NAACP; 100th anniversary; commend

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2009-02-02 - House Read and Adopted [HR196 Detail]

Download: Georgia-2009-HR196-Introduced.html

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09 LC 94 0248

House Resolution 196

By: Representative Beasley-Teague of the 65th

A RESOLUTION

Commending the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People on its 100th anniversary; and for other purposes.

WHEREAS, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) was founded on February 12, 1909, and was originally known as the National Negro Committee; and

WHEREAS, the founders of the NAACP were a group of multiracial activists who answered the call for a national conference to discuss the civil and political rights of African Americans; and

WHEREAS, the creators of the NAACP included distinguished leaders in the struggle for civil and political liberty for all people such as Ida Wells-Barnett, W.E.B. DuBois, Henry Moscowitz, Mary White Ovington, Oswald Garrison Villard, and William English Walling; and

WHEREAS, the mission of the NAACP is to ensure equal political, educational, social, and economic rights for all individuals and eliminate racial hatred and discrimination; and

WHEREAS, the NAACP is the nation's oldest and largest civil rights organization, committed to achieving goals through nonviolence; and

WHEREAS, the NAACP advances its mission through reliance upon the press, the petition, the ballot, and the courts, not allowing overt and violent racial hostility to deter its calling; and

WHEREAS, political pressure, marches, demonstrations, and effective lobbying have been used by the NAACP to ensure that the voices of the minorities of America are heard; and
WHEREAS, under the leadership of Special Counsel Thurgood Marshall, the NAACP won the fight to desegregate public schools in its greatest legal victory with the Supreme Court's 1954 decision in Brown v. Board of Education; and

WHEREAS, in 1955, NAACP member Rosa Parks was arrested and fined for courageously refusing to give up her seat on a segregated bus in Montgomery, Alabama, which served as the catalyst for the largest grassroots civil rights movement in the history of the United States; and

WHEREAS, the NAACP has been prominent in lobbying for ground-breaking equal protection legislation, including the Civil Rights Acts of 1957, 1960, and 1964, the Voting Rights Act of 1965, the Fannie Lou Hamer, Rosa Parks, and Coretta Scott King Voting Rights Reauthorization and Amendments Act of 2006, and the Fair Housing Act; and

WHEREAS, in 2005 the NAACP launched the Disaster Relief Fund to help the hurricane survivors in Louisiana, Mississippi, Texas, Florida, and Alabama rebuild their lives; and

WHEREAS, on February 12, 2009, the NAACP will mark its 100th anniversary, launching a full year of celebrations and observances at its headquarters in Baltimore, Maryland, and 1,700 local offices throughout the nation; and

WHEREAS, it is fitting that this body express its appreciation for the great advancements made by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People over the past 100 years.

NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES that members of this body recognize the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People for the organization's significant role in leading social change in America and extend congratulations on the remarkable occasion of its 100th anniversary.

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Clerk of the House of Representatives is authorized and directed to transmit an appropriate copy of this resolution to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.