Bill Text: IL SR0416 | 2015-2016 | 99th General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Mourns the death of civil rights activist Alice Tregay.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2)
Status: (Passed) 2015-04-30 - Resolution Adopted [SR0416 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2015-SR0416-Introduced.html
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| 1 | SENATE RESOLUTION
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| 2 | WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois Senate are saddened to | ||||||
| 3 | learn of the death of legendary civil rights icon, Alice | ||||||
| 4 | Tregay; and
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| 5 | WHEREAS, Alice Tregay was a native of Evanston, known as a | ||||||
| 6 | child by the name of Lucille Hicks; and
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| 7 | WHEREAS, Alice Tregay became active in public life in the | ||||||
| 8 | 1960s; in 1971, along with her longtime allies, (the late) | ||||||
| 9 | Janice Bell and Rev. Willie T. Barrow (who recently preceded | ||||||
| 10 | her in death), she helped start the Political Education | ||||||
| 11 | Division for Dr. King's Southern Christian Leadership | ||||||
| 12 | Conference, under the leadership of a young organizer named | ||||||
| 13 | Jesse Jackson; and taught thousands of students how to organize | ||||||
| 14 | citizens and lead political campaigns; she served as director | ||||||
| 15 | and chief lobbyist for the Black Illinois Legislative Lobby in | ||||||
| 16 | Springfield from 1977 to 1982; and
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| 17 | WHEREAS, Alice Tregay directed the local and national voter | ||||||
| 18 | registration, voter education, and get-out-the-vote campaigns | ||||||
| 19 | under Operation Breadbasket, PUSH, and Rainbow/PUSH, including | ||||||
| 20 | the historic election and re-election of Chicago's first black | ||||||
| 21 | Mayor Harold Washington; and
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| 1 | WHEREAS, Alice Tregay and her husband, James, marched | ||||||
| 2 | numerous times alongside Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in support | ||||||
| 3 | of open housing and desegregation in the Chicago public | ||||||
| 4 | schools; she was also the President of the South Shore | ||||||
| 5 | Organization for Human Rights; and
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| 6 | WHEREAS, Alice Tregay has advocated on behalf of the | ||||||
| 7 | disadvantaged, registered thousands of new voters, and managed | ||||||
| 8 | or worked on behalf of many high-profile political campaigns, | ||||||
| 9 | including Rev. Jackson's presidential campaigns of 1984 and | ||||||
| 10 | 1988, and President Obama's campaign in 2008, and as a result, | ||||||
| 11 | the citizens of Illinois and those across the country are | ||||||
| 12 | better off; and
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| 13 | WHEREAS, A documentary on Alice Tregay's extraordinary | ||||||
| 14 | life, "Alice's Ordinary People", was presented to a full-house | ||||||
| 15 | at the Shorefront Legacy Center on June 19, 2013; and
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| 16 | WHEREAS, Alice Tregay was never one to slow down and was | ||||||
| 17 | still promoting voter registration late in her life; she will | ||||||
| 18 | go down in history as registering more voters than any other | ||||||
| 19 | voter education activist in political history; therefore, be it
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| 20 | RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE NINETY-NINTH GENERAL | ||||||
| 21 | ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we mourn the passing of | ||||||
| 22 | a civil rights icon, Alice Tregay, and extend our sincere | ||||||
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| 1 | condolences to her family, friends, and all who knew and loved | ||||||
| 2 | her; and be it further
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| 3 | RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | ||||||
| 4 | presented to the family of Alice Tregay as an expression of our | ||||||
| 5 | deepest sympathy.
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