Bill Text: IL SR0930 | 2023-2024 | 103rd General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Declares April 17, 2024 as Phi Beta Sigma and Zeta Phi Beta Day at the Illinois State Capitol. Commends the efforts of the members of Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Inc. and Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, Inc. for their commitment to community service and recognizes their collective contributions to making their communities a better place to live, play, and work.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2024-04-17 - Resolution Adopted [SR0930 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2023-SR0930-Introduced.html
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1 | SENATE RESOLUTION | ||||||
2 | WHEREAS, Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, Inc. was founded at | ||||||
3 | Howard University in Washington, D.C. on January 9, 1914 by | ||||||
4 | three African-American students, A. Langston Taylor, Leonard | ||||||
5 | F. Morse, and Charles I. Brown, who united to form a fraternity | ||||||
6 | that would exemplify the ideals of brotherhood, scholarship, | ||||||
7 | and service; and
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8 | WHEREAS, The founders of Phi Beta Sigma offered support | ||||||
9 | and encouragement to Arizona Cleaver Stemons, Pearl Anna Neal, | ||||||
10 | Myrtle Tyler Faithful, Viola Tyler Goings, and Fannie Pettie | ||||||
11 | Watts as they founded Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Inc. at Howard | ||||||
12 | University on January 16, 1920 to raise people's | ||||||
13 | consciousness, encourage scholastic achievement, and foster | ||||||
14 | unity among members, making Phi Beta Sigma and Zeta Phi Beta | ||||||
15 | the first fraternity and sorority to be constitutionally bound | ||||||
16 | to each other; and
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17 | WHEREAS, Phi Beta Sigma brothers believe that each member | ||||||
18 | and potential member should be judged by their own merits, | ||||||
19 | rather than family background, affluence, race, nationality, | ||||||
20 | skin tone, or hair texture, and should work to return newly | ||||||
21 | acquired skills to the communities from which they come, with | ||||||
22 | this conviction mirrored in the fraternity's motto, Culture | ||||||
23 | For Service and Service For Humanity; and
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1 | WHEREAS, Phi Beta Sigma brothers contributed greatly to | ||||||
2 | the literary and artistic movement known as the Harlem | ||||||
3 | Renaissance, to the cause of civil rights, civic engagement, | ||||||
4 | and freedom, and to the sciences, and membership has included | ||||||
5 | writer Alain LeRoy Locke, poet and diplomat James Weldon | ||||||
6 | Johnson, workers rights activist A. Philip Randolph, scientist | ||||||
7 | George Washington Carver, astronaut Victor Glover, Congressman | ||||||
8 | Elijah Cummings, Congressman John Lewis, and Nnamdi Azikiwe, | ||||||
9 | the first president of independent Nigeria; and
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10 | WHEREAS, Zeta Phi Beta was the first Black greek-lettered | ||||||
11 | organization to centralize its operations in a national | ||||||
12 | headquarters, the first to charter a chapter in Africa, and | ||||||
13 | the first to form auxiliary groups and currently boasts | ||||||
14 | hundreds of chapters worldwide with over 100,000 members who | ||||||
15 | seek to upload its ideals of Scholarship, Service, Sisterhood, | ||||||
16 | and Finer Womanhood; and
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17 | WHEREAS, Zeta Phi Beta sisters contributed greatly to the | ||||||
18 | literary and artistic movement known as the Harlem | ||||||
19 | Renaissance, to the cause of civil rights, civic engagement, | ||||||
20 | and freedom, and to the sciences, and membership has included | ||||||
21 | writer and anthropologist Zora Neale Hurston, attorney | ||||||
22 | Violette Anderson, educator Dr. Elizabeth Koontz, journalist | ||||||
23 | and media entrepreneur Clara McLaughlin, and psychiatrist and |
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1 | substance abuse treatment expert Dr. Alyce Gullattee; | ||||||
2 | therefore, be it
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3 | RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE ONE HUNDRED THIRD GENERAL | ||||||
4 | ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we declare April 17, | ||||||
5 | 2024 as Phi Beta Sigma and Zeta Phi Beta Day at the Illinois | ||||||
6 | State Capitol; and be it further
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7 | RESOLVED, That we commend the efforts of the members of | ||||||
8 | Zeta Phi Beta and Phi Beta Sigma for their commitment to | ||||||
9 | community service and recognize their collective contributions | ||||||
10 | to making their communities a better place to live, play, and | ||||||
11 | work; and be it further
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