Full Text of HR0782 93rd General Assembly
HR0782 93RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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| HOUSE RESOLUTION
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| WHEREAS, The Illinois Chapters of Delta Sigma Theta | 3 |
| Sorority are sponsoring their first annual legislative visit to | 4 |
| the State Capitol; and
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| WHEREAS, Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc., was founded in | 6 |
| 1913 at Howard University by 22 African-American women who | 7 |
| wanted to use their collective strength to promote academic | 8 |
| excellence and to provide assistance to persons in need; and
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| WHEREAS, Delta Sigma Theta is an international | 10 |
| organization with over 250,000 undergraduate and alumnae | 11 |
| members, making it one of the largest women's organizations in | 12 |
| the world, with 900 chapters located in the United States, | 13 |
| England, Japan, Germany, the Virgin Islands, Bermuda, the | 14 |
| Bahamas, and the Republic of Korea; and
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| WHEREAS, Delta Sigma Theta is an organization with a | 16 |
| commitment to promoting economic development, educational | 17 |
| development, physical and mental health, international | 18 |
| awareness and involvement, and political awareness and | 19 |
| involvement; and
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| WHEREAS, Delta Sigma Theta members who have distinguished | 21 |
| themselves individually include: Broadway actress Osceola | 22 |
| Macarthy Adams; National Bar Association founder Sadie T. M. | 23 |
| Alexander, Ph.D.; sculptor and painter Tina Allen; Brigadier | 24 |
| General Hazel Johnson Brown, Ph.D., the first African-American | 25 |
| woman general in the United States Army; Selma Burke, Ph.D., | 26 |
| whose likeness of President Franklin D. Roosevelt appears on | 27 |
| the U.S. dime; Alexa Canady, M.D., at age 26 became the first | 28 |
| Black woman neurosurgeon in the U.S.; internationally | 29 |
| acclaimed sculptor and lithographer Elizabeth Catlett; Cong. | 30 |
| Shirley Chisholm, the first Black woman member of the U.S. | 31 |
| Congress and the first African American and first woman to run |
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| as a major party candidate for President; actress and poet Ruby | 2 |
| Dee Davis; Myrlie Evers-Williams, Chairman Emerita of the Board | 3 |
| for the NAACP; attorney Frankie M. Freeman, former chair of the | 4 |
| Civil Rights Commission; Ambassador Patricia Roberts Harris, | 5 |
| first Black woman to serve in a presidential cabinet post; | 6 |
| Dorothy I. Height, Ph.D., served as president of the National | 7 |
| Council of Negro Women for over 40 years; Alexis Herman, | 8 |
| Secretary of Labor for President Bill Clinton; author Darlene | 9 |
| Clark Hine, Ph.D.; Shirley Jackson, Ph.D., President of | 10 |
| Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, first African-American woman | 11 |
| to earn a Ph.D. from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (in | 12 |
| 1973), and first African-American woman to serve on the United | 13 |
| States Nuclear Regulatory Commission; Elaine R. Jones, first | 14 |
| African-American woman elected to the American Bar Association | 15 |
| Board of Governors; Barbara Jordan, first African American to | 16 |
| serve in the U.S. congress from the South since reconstruction | 17 |
| and the first Black woman to preside over a state senate; Jewel | 18 |
| S. Lafontant, the first American woman to be admitted into the | 19 |
| International Academy of Trial Lawyers and the first female | 20 |
| Deputy Solicitor General of the U.S. during the Nixon | 21 |
| Administration; Cong. Carrie P. Meek, Florida; Emmy award | 22 |
| winning AIDS activist Rae Lewis-Thornton; Cong. Stephanie | 23 |
| Tubbs-Jones, Ohio; and Ambassador Carol Mosely Braun, former | 24 |
| U.S. Senator from Illinois; therefore, be it
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| RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE | 26 |
| NINETY-THIRD GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that | 27 |
| the members of this Body, in recognition of the achievements of | 28 |
| the members of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc., and the values | 29 |
| for which they strive, do proclaim Wednesday, March 31, 2004, | 30 |
| as the First Annual Delta Sigma Theta Day throughout the State | 31 |
| of Illinois; and be it further
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| RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 33 |
| presented to Gwendolyn E. Boyd, international president of | 34 |
| Delta Sigma Theta, Inc.
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