Bill Text: IA HR41 | 2015-2016 | 86th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: A resolution marking more than 50 years of this country's struggle for civil rights and honoring the achievements of the civil rights movement.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 12-3)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-05-12 - Resolution filed, laid over under Rule 25. H.J. 1052. [HR41 Detail]

Download: Iowa-2015-HR41-Introduced.html

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House Resolution 41 - Introduced

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                    HOUSE RESOLUTION NO.    
           BY  ABDUL=SAMAD, KOESTER, LANDON, BROWN=POWERS,
          McCONKEY, BEARINGER, STUTSMAN, HUNTER, ANDERSON,
         STAED, STECKMAN, GASKILL, GAINES, MEYER, and SIECK
  1  1 A Resolution marking more than 50 years of this
  1  2    country's struggle for civil rights and honoring the
  1  3    achievements of the civil rights movement.
  1  4    WHEREAS, the United States Supreme Court struck
  1  5 down the "separate but equal" doctrine that provided
  1  6 the basis for state=sanctioned discrimination through
  1  7 its 1954 decision in Brown v. Board of Education of
  1  8 Topeka, drawing attention to the plight of African
  1  9 Americans; and
  1 10    WHEREAS, a turbulent decade followed that saw
  1 11 civil rights activists promote the use of nonviolent
  1 12 protest and civil disobedience to bring about change
  1 13 and produced many African=American leaders, including
  1 14 Martin Luther King, Jr., Rosa Parks, and Malcolm X,
  1 15 some of whom sacrificed their lives in the name of
  1 16 freedom and equality; and
  1 17    WHEREAS, the Southern Christian Leadership
  1 18 Conference organized a march on March 7, 1965, from
  1 19 Selma, Alabama, to the state capitol in Montgomery
  1 20 that quickly ended when police attacked the protesters
  1 21 with tear gas and clubs and inspired hundreds of civil
  1 22 rights supporters to gather in Selma after hearing
  1 23 accounts of the "Bloody Sunday" attack; and
  1 24    WHEREAS, the federal government produced landmark
  1 25 legislation with the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the
  1 26 Voting Rights Act of 1965, and the Civil Rights Act of
  2  1 1968, among others; and
  2  2    WHEREAS, the judicial and legislative changes
  2  3 that occurred throughout the 1950s and 1960s greatly
  2  4 expanded the opportunities available not only to
  2  5 African Americans, but also to other minorities,
  2  6 women, disabled individuals, and other victims of
  2  7 discrimination; NOW THEREFORE,
  2  8    BE IT RESOLVED BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, That
  2  9 the House of Representatives remembers the struggle
  2 10 of all who worked, and continue to work, to achieve
  2 11 equality and freedom for everyone and the achievements
  2 12 of the civil rights movement.
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