Bill Text: OH HB436 | 2013-2014 | 130th General Assembly | Comm Sub
Bill Title: To designate October 7 as Moses Fleetwood Walker Day.
Spectrum: Strong Partisan Bill (Democrat 16-1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-03-20 - Committee Report [HB436 Detail]
Download: Ohio-2013-HB436-Comm_Sub.html
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Representative Slesnick
Cosponsors:
Representatives Williams, Reece, Cera, Blair, Letson, Bishoff, Hagan, R., Mallory, Barborak, Curtin, Strahorn, Ashford, Rogers, Gerberry, Brown, Sheehy
To enact section 5.2296 of the Revised Code to | 1 |
designate October 7 as Moses Fleetwood Walker Day. | 2 |
BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF OHIO:
Section 1. That section 5.2296 of the Revised Code be enacted | 3 |
to read as follows: | 4 |
Sec. 5.2296. The seventh day of October shall be designated | 5 |
as "Moses Fleetwood Walker Day" in honor of the Ohioan who was the | 6 |
first African-American major league baseball player under | 7 |
contract. | 8 |
Section 2. In declaring October 7 "Moses Fleetwood Walker | 9 |
Day," the General Assembly recognizes the contribution that Moses | 10 |
Walker made to the integration of professional athletics. Born in | 11 |
Mount Pleasant, Ohio, on October 7, 1856, Moses Walker played one | 12 |
season with the Toledo Blue Stockings and died in Cleveland in | 13 |
1924. | 14 |