Bill Text: PA HR772 | 2009-2010 | Regular Session | Introduced


Bill Title: Honoring the life of civil rights leader Benjamin L. Hooks and expressing condolences upon his death on April 15, 2010.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 34-14)

Status: (Passed) 2010-09-14 - Adopted [HR772 Detail]

Download: Pennsylvania-2009-HR772-Introduced.html

  

 

    

PRINTER'S NO.  3639

  

THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA

  

HOUSE RESOLUTION

 

No.

772

Session of

2010

  

  

INTRODUCED BY BISHOP, McCALL, DONATUCCI, SIPTROTH, LONGIETTI, McGEEHAN, WHEATLEY, MAJOR, KORTZ, SANTARSIERO, MILLARD, WATERS, BRENNAN, GEORGE, DALEY, GRUCELA, CALTAGIRONE, COHEN, BOYLE, HARPER, BUXTON, BEYER, PAYTON, SANTONI, FAIRCHILD, GODSHALL, PRESTON, ROEBUCK, O'NEILL AND PARKER, APRIL 27, 2010

  

  

INTRODUCED AS NONCONTROVERSIAL RESOLUTION UNDER RULE 35, APRIL 27, 2010  

  

  

  

A RESOLUTION

  

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Honoring the life of civil rights leader Benjamin L. Hooks and

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expressing condolences upon his death on April 15, 2010.

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WHEREAS, Benjamin L. Hooks, 85, a lawyer and Baptist minister

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who led lunch-counter sit-in demonstrations during the 1960s and

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was a longtime leader of the National Association for the

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Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) as it struggled to find

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its way in the post-civil rights era, died April 15 at his home

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in Memphis Tennessee; and

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WHEREAS, In a career spanning six decades, Reverend Hooks

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achieved many milestones; in 1965, he became the first black

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judge to sit on the bench of a Tennessee state court since

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Reconstruction, and in 1972, he became the first black member of

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the Federal Communications Commission where he championed

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minority ownership of television and radio stations; and

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WHEREAS, A charismatic orator, Reverend Hooks was a Baptist

 


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minister in Memphis, Tennessee, and Detroit, Michigan, and sat

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on the board of the Reverend Doctor Martin Luther King, Jr.'s

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Southern Christian Leadership Conference; and

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WHEREAS, In 1977, Reverend Hooks succeeded Roy Wilkins as

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executive director of the NAACP and led it through the post-

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civil rights era, confronting and overcoming declining

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membership and bolstering efforts for equal housing, affirmative

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action and school integration through busing; and

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WHEREAS, A man who could remember having to pack his lunch

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for car trips because there were no eating places on his travel

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route where "colored" were welcome to eat or use the restroom,

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Reverend Hooks made our nation a better place for all people to

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live, and for this he will be long remembered; therefore be it

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RESOLVED, That the House of Representatives honor the life of

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civil rights leader Benjamin L. Hooks and express its

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condolences upon his death on April 15, 2010.

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