Bill Text: PA SR422 | 2009-2010 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Commemorating the National Urban League on their 100th anniversary.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 10-5)

Status: (Passed) 2010-10-12 - Introduced and adopted [SR422 Detail]

Download: Pennsylvania-2009-SR422-Introduced.html

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PRINTER'S NO. 2280
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
SENATE RESOLUTION
No. 422 Session of2010
INTRODUCED BY ORIE, PILEGGI, ALLOWAY, BRUBAKER, COSTA, DINNIMAN, EARLL, ERICKSON, FONTANA, GREENLEAF, O'PAKE, PIPPY, RAFFERTY, STACK AND VOGEL, OCTOBER 12, 2010
INTRODUCED AND ADOPTED, OCTOBER 12, 2010
A RESOLUTION
Commemorating the National Urban League on their 100th
anniversary.
WHEREAS, The National Urban League has worked on behalf of
African Americans to end racial discrimination in the United
States; and
WHEREAS, The National Urban League was founded in 1920 by
Ruth Standish Baldwin and George Edmund Haynes; and
WHEREAS, The mission of the Urban League movement is "to
enable African Americans to secure economic self-reliance,
parity, power and civil rights"; and
WHEREAS, Pennsylvania is home to four National Urban League
affiliates: the Shenango Valley Urban League, the Urban League
of Greater Pittsburgh, the Urban League of Lancaster County and
the Urban League of Philadelphia; and
WHEREAS, The National Urban League has made tremendous
progress from the Great Migration of the early 20th century,
through the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s to the election
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of the first African-American President; therefore be it
RESOLVED, That the Senate commemorate the National Urban
League on their 100th anniversary.
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