Bill Text: PA HR79 | 2009-2010 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Commemorating February 12, 2009, as the 100th anniversary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and the 200th anniversary of the birthday of Abraham Lincoln.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 29-9)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2009-02-13 - Referred to RULES [HR79 Detail]

Download: Pennsylvania-2009-HR79-Introduced.html

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PRINTER'S NO. 417
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE RESOLUTION
No. 79 Session of2009
INTRODUCED BY BROWN, JOHNSON, PAYTON, THOMAS, DeWEESE, PARKER, COHEN, KORTZ, YOUNGBLOOD, SANTARSIERO, WATERS, KIRKLAND, DRUCKER, WHEATLEY, LEVDANSKY, LONGIETTI, SCAVELLO, PETRI, McCALL, DONATUCCI, GINGRICH, QUINN, HELM, MELIO, SAINATO, GRUCELA, DiGIROLAMO, MURPHY, McGEEHAN, FRANKEL, SIPTROTH, BRENNAN, SHAPIRO, REICHLEY, FABRIZIO AND PAYNE, FEBRUARY 13, 2009
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON RULES, FEBRUARY 13, 2009
A RESOLUTION
Commemorating February 12, 2009, as the 100th anniversary of the
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
and the 200th anniversary of the birthday of Abraham Lincoln.
WHEREAS, Early organizers of the National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), including Ida Wells-
Barnett, W.E.B. DuBois, Henry Muskowitz, Mary White Ovington,
Oswald Garrison and William English Walling, led the call to
renew the struggle for civil and political liberty and chose the
100th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln's birthday, February 12,
1909, to open their campaign; and
WHEREAS, For 100 years the NAACP has fought to ensure the
political, educational, social and economic equality of rights
of all persons and to eliminate racial hatred and racial
discrimination; and
WHEREAS, The NAACP is the nation's oldest civil rights
organization and has changed the history of America and our
Commonwealth; and
WHEREAS, In 1954 NAACP special counsel Thurgood Marshall won
a victory for all Americans while representing the parents of 20
students who sued the Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas, in
the landmark Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, ending
decades of government-sanctioned segregation under Plessy v.
Ferguson; and
WHEREAS, In 1955, after being arrested and fined for refusing
to give up her seat for a white man on a segregated bus in
Montgomery, Alabama, Rosa Parks, NAACP Montgomery Chapter
secretary, acted as a catalyst to the Montgomery Bus Boycott,
and thereafter is looked upon as the "mother of the modern civil
rights movement"; and
WHEREAS, In 1964, one year after his stirring "I Have a
Dream" speech, the Reverend Doctor Martin Luther King, Jr., a
member of the NAACP and a founder of the Southern Christian
Leadership Conference, became the youngest person to receive the
Nobel Peace Prize for his work to end racial segregation through
peaceful means; and
WHEREAS, In 1967 Thurgood Marshall became the first African
American to serve on the United States Supreme Court when he was
nominated by President Lyndon Johnson; and
WHEREAS, Abraham Lincoln was born February 12, 1809, in
Kentucky, and would become the 16th President of the United
States of America; and
WHEREAS, President Lincoln led our nation through its darkest
period, when it existed as a house divided against itself; and
WHEREAS, On January 1, 1863, President Lincoln issued the
Emancipation Proclamation, forever freeing those held in the
chains of slavery; and
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WHEREAS, In November 1863 in the small farming town of
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, President Lincoln proclaimed, "that
this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom -- and
that government of the people, by the people, for the people,
shall not perish from the earth"; therefore be it
RESOLVED, That the House of Representatives commemorate
February 12, 2009, as the 100th anniversary of the NAACP and the
200th anniversary of the birthday of Abraham Lincoln.
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