Bill Text: TX HR716 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced
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Bill Title: Commemorating the 32nd annual NAACP Grand Prairie Freedom Fund Scholarship Banquet.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2019-03-22 - Reported enrolled [HR716 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HR716-Introduced.html
Bill Title: Commemorating the 32nd annual NAACP Grand Prairie Freedom Fund Scholarship Banquet.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2019-03-22 - Reported enrolled [HR716 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HR716-Introduced.html
86R15791 BK-D | ||
By: Turner of Tarrant | H.R. No. 716 |
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WHEREAS, The Grand Prairie branch of the NAACP is hosting its | ||
32nd annual Freedom Fund Scholarship Banquet on March 28, 2019; and | ||
WHEREAS, The NAACP of Grand Prairie is aligned with its | ||
parent organization in seeking to eliminate racial discrimination | ||
and to ensure the political, educational, social, and economic | ||
equality of all citizens; for more than three decades, the Freedom | ||
Fund Scholarship Banquet has provided the chapter with the | ||
opportunity to support the advancement of education in its | ||
community by raising scholarship money for deserving area students; | ||
and | ||
WHEREAS, Featuring the theme "Love Conquers Hate," this | ||
year's banquet will welcome Sarah Collins Rudolph, a survivor of | ||
the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing in Birmingham, Alabama, as | ||
its keynote speaker; the bombing, which was carried out on | ||
September 15, 1963, by four members of the Ku Klux Klan, took the | ||
lives of Ms. Rudolph's sister and three other girls and left | ||
Ms. Rudolph with significant injuries, including the loss of sight | ||
in one of her eyes; in the decades that have passed since that | ||
horrific day, Ms. Rudolph has spoken out about the trauma she has | ||
endured as a victim and survivor of terrorism, and she has traveled | ||
across the country spreading a message about hope and the healing | ||
power of reconciliation; and | ||
WHEREAS, The dedicated work of the Grand Prairie NAACP is an | ||
inspiration to all those who share its vision of a society built | ||
around justice and human dignity, and it is a privilege to join in | ||
honoring the organization and its distinguished guest speaker, | ||
Sarah Collins Rudolph; now, therefore, be it | ||
RESOLVED, That the House of Representatives of the 86th Texas | ||
Legislature hereby commemorate the 32nd annual NAACP Grand Prairie | ||
Freedom Fund Scholarship Banquet and extend to all those in | ||
attendance sincere best wishes for a meaningful and memorable | ||
event; and, be it further | ||
RESOLVED, That an official copy of this resolution be | ||
prepared for the NAACP of Grand Prairie as an expression of high | ||
regard by the Texas House of Representatives. |